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“But when I heard that this old man, who went from accuser to being the accused, had been staked out on his back in a field and the deputies had piled stone upon stone on his chest, it made me wonder about the kind of people who were convicting us. Where was Satan? Wasn’t he hiding in the folds of the judges’ coats? Wasn’t he speaking in the voices of these magistrates and men of religion?”

Book:I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Source: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

“Those of you who have read my tale up till now must be wondering who is this witch devoid of hatred, who is mislead each time by the wickedness in men’s hearts? For the nth time I made up my mind to be different and fight it out tooth and nail. But how to work a change in my hear and coat its lining with snake venom? How to make it into a vessel for bitter and violent feelings? To get it to love evil? Instead I could only feel tenderness and compassion for the disinherited and a sense of revolt against injustice.”

Justice Goodness

Book:I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Source: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

“There was one thing, however, that I didn’t know: evil is a gift received at birth. There’s no acquiring it. Those of us who have not come to this world armed with spurs and fangs are losers in every combat.”

Evil Destiny Fate Good Predestination

Book:I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Source: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

“The dead only die if they die in our hearts.”

Death Memory Death Of A Loved One

Book:I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Source: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

“There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?”

Development Uncertainty Agriculture West Indies Post Colonial Sugarcane

Book:Crossing the Mangrove

Source: Crossing the Mangrove

“We were in Africa". I know, I know. What were we doing there? We must have lived, somehow. Eaten, slept, raised children? Was it so savage and horrible that it is netter forgotten? Who can tell me? No one. Because nobody knows and everyone takes for granted what they've been told.”

Africa Panafricanism Posctolonial

Book:Heremakhonon

Source: Heremakhonon

“Deprived of my shackles, I was unable to find my balance and I tottered like a woman drunk on cheap liquor. I had to learn how to speak again, how to communicate with my fellow creatures, and no longer be content with a word here and there. I had to learn how to look them in the eyes again. I had to learn how to do my hair again now that it had become a tangle of untidy snakes hissing around my head. I had to rub ointments on my dry, cracked, skin, which had become like a badly tanned hide. Few people have the misfortune to be born twice.”

Witches Incarceration Salem Witch Trials Tituba Reentry Justice Involved Women Reentry Problems Returning Citizen

Book:I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Source: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

“The truth always arrive too late because it walks slower than lies. Truth crawls at a snail's pace.”

Tituba Maryse Conde Page 130 I Tituba Black Wittch Of Salem

Book:I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

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“They hanged my mother. I watched her body swing from the lower branches of a silk cotton tree. She had committed a crime for which there is no pardon. She had struck a white man. She had not killed him, however. In her clumsy rage she had only managed to gash his shoulder”

Tituba Maryse Conde Page 12

Book:I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Source: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem