Roth Williamson

“flute. As I stood in the doorway, he lingered over it, then, carefully rewrapping it, placed it in his box of treasured things. I never saw the flute again. *”
― Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

“Because the students were needed in the fields from early spring when the cotton was planted until after most of the cotton had been picked in the fall, the school adjusted its terms accordingly, beginning in October and dismissing in March.”
― Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

“did not blame others for his own stupidity; he learned from his mistake and became stronger for it.”
― Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

“He was often ridiculed by the other children at his school and had shown up more than once with wide red welts on his arms which Lillian Jean, his older sister, had revealed with satisfaction were the result of his associating with us. Still, Jeremy continued to meet us. When”
― Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry