“My master jecked up my dress and gived my mistress the whip and told her to teach me a lesson. Every time she hit me she asked me what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. She hit me again: what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown.” FearlessDefiance Book:The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Source: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
“They had chopped wood here too; then they were gone. Gone to the fields, the small towns, the cities – where they died. There was always news coming back to the quarter about someone who had been killed or who had been sent to prison for killing someone else: Snowball, stabbed to death in a nightclub in Port Allen; Claudee, killed by a woman in New Orleans; Smitty, sent to the state penitentiary for manslaughter. And there were others who did not go anywhere but simply died slower” Bleakness Book:A Lesson Before Dying Source: A Lesson Before Dying
“it look like the lord just work for wite folks” RaceHopelessnessMiraclesBlack Lives MatterWhitenessBlmHeartbreaking QuotesA Lesson Before Dying QuotesErnest J Gaines Quotes Book:A Lesson Before Dying Source: A Lesson Before Dying