Up Home Quotes

“I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas.”
― Ruth J. Simmons, Up Home: One Girl's Journey

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― Ruth J. Simmons, Up Home: One Girl's Journey

“To reassure one’s children in the face of one’s own fear and uncertainty is one of the most demanding but empowering acts of motherhood.”
― Ruth J. Simmons, Up Home: One Girl's Journey

“For, thanks to the opportunities granted me to learn, I am not the person I was supposed to be. Rather, I am the person that I dreamed of becoming.”
― Ruth J. Simmons, Up Home: One Girl's Journey