Beverly Jenkins > Quotes

“Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Heart of Gold

“Your sweetness is so much stronger than their hate.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Forbidden

“Who're you supposed to be, Creflo Dollar's Mini-Me?”
― Beverly Jenkins

“Because we can’t tell others about our accomplishments if we don’t know them ourselves.”
― Beverly Jenkins, The Edge of Midnight

“Hester thought about the political upheaval gripping the country and said, "These are serious times." "Yes, they are, which is why it's important to seek out humor and beauty whenever possible. If we don't, we'll all be buried beneath the weight of the misery.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Indigo

“You always this combative, Miss Wyatt?" "Not as a rule, no." "That's too bad. A combative woman is usually a passionate woman,”
― Beverly Jenkins, Indigo

“You are the contrariest woman I have ever met." Hester snorted. "Contrariest. What kind of word is contrariest. French?" He grinned. "Be careful baby girl, I bite. I'll give you more French than you'll know what to do with.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Indigo

“Carry on, please. Women don’t usually take a skillet to his head and I’m anxious to witness it,”
― Beverly Jenkins, Forbidden

“Sheriff, I’m wanted everywhere—but not by the law.”
― Beverly Jenkins, A Chance at Love

“Love is also patient,” he added quietly. “Love is kind. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never ends.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Breathless

“A man is only as strong as the woman who holds him.”
― Beverly Jenkins, For Your Love

“Pirate thoughts.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“There were undoubtedly worse things than being an unmarried woman in charge of her own life, free to come and go as she pleased, free to explore pleasure.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“If you were the man of my heart, I’d be your wife, not mistress. I don’t share well.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Winds of the Storm

“Never mind then. Do what’s best for her. Not you. But if you need me to ride north, let me know.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine points of what a woman of the nineteenth century could achieve.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Topaz

“Someone has to champion us if the government won’t. During the Draft Riots back home, mobs attacked members of the race all over the city. They even burned down a Colored orphanage. Those who hate us have no shame, and if dragging them from their houses teaches them a lesson, I’m all for dragging them out every night until they learn.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“What role was she expected to play in his life, and more important, in her own?”
― Beverly Jenkins, Destiny's Captive

“And that's what you aspire to? Being a force to reckon with?" "yes, and to teach girls to aspire to be the same.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“I wonder if the country will ever heal from the war?" ... "It won't be anytime soon. Maybe not even in our lifetimes.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“Some do, but the big cattle ranchers don’t. They own the land now and it’s made them rich. They don’t care if the tribes are fenced in, starving, and destitute, as long as they can ship their beef.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“Had the Army been helpful, maybe the murderer wouldn’t be wherever he was taken.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“The common man need not ask because I am unavailable to him, but for a man who matches me in strength and purpose—there is no cost.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Winds of the Storm

“What scares you?” “That I won’t be taken seriously because I can’t write my name in the snow.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Breathless

“Why do men want unmarried women to be so ignorant?”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“Being in New Orleans with its long history of ambitious women of color like Julianna had shown her that she didn't need the societal stamp of a husband to achiee her goals. ... But would Cole and Lenny succeed without her being Cole's wife?”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“working sugar was by far the most brutal work a slave could be assigned. Most died by the age of twenty-five from infections caused by the serrated leaves, snakebite from the venomous snakes lurking in the fields, and heat exhaustion from having to stir the cane down to syrup in vats heated underneath by flames”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rebel

“Olivia handed Cara the bowl of ice cream. “You finish it. Life would be so much easier if Malloy would go out onto the plains and let himself be eaten by a bear.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Something Like Love: A Forbidden Historical Western Romance Between an Outlaw and a Mayor in an All-Black Town

“Embarrassed by her admission and doing her best to ignore the heat searing her cheeks, she dragged her eyes to his and found a quietness waiting there that spoke to her wordlessly.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Breathless

“Nubia is Wonder Woman’s Black twin sister, and Sam Wilson is a Black guy who used to be the Falcon but is now Captain America.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Rare Danger