“We haunt the past to refuse to let it lie comfortably as it was.” HistoryHauntingAncestors Book:Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People Source: Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
“When the crop that brought wealth under the banner of Christianity is found to destroy human lungs but trees older than Jesus breathe, it makes me think the meek shall inherit the earth.” HistoryBlack WomenBlack HistorySouthern WritersBlack AuthorSouthern History Book:South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Source: South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
“People, especially elders, repeat stories over and over again with purpose. In the arrogance of youth, we often think they do I because they are absent-minded. Now I know they repeat themselves because they’ve whittled like down into observations that should not be forgotten. They are authoring scriptures of their own.” EldersOral Storytelling Book:Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People Source: Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
“There are no historic firsts, no grand gestures, no monuments or museums that undo generations of exclusions under law, policy, and practice, or that stop the expulsion. It makes me want to holler. Tell the truth. What is this symbolic republic?” History Of The United States Book:South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Source: South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation