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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Book by Kim Michele Richardson · 3 quotes · Acceptance, Bigotry, Color

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“May your union blossom and your lives be filled with all the precious colors of God's glorious fabrics.”

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“There's nothing wrong with your color, being you," he said firmly. "Nothing wrong with what the good Lord gives us in His world, Cussy Mary." He didn't know, couldn't know, the load I'd carried as a Blue, the scorn and hatred and gruesome marriage. How dare Pa call me vain and now Jackson. How dare he too? "Nothing wrong—" Jackson repeated. I stepped back and shot out a shaky hand. "No, Jackson Lovett, you're wrong. There is nothing wrong with your color in your world, a world that wants only whiteness.”

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“What I wanted most was to be okay as a Blue. I never understood why other people thought my color, any color, needed fixing.”

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