JaVone

“We Afficans try raise our chillun right. When dey say we ign’nant we go together and build de school house. Den de county send us a teacher. We Afficky men doan wait lak de other colored people till de white folks gittee ready to build us a school. We build one for ourself den astee de county to send us de teacher.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

“Once you tell a lie, you have to keep tellin’ and tellin’ and tellin’ to make it stand.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, The Pecan Man

“Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.”
― Toni Morrison, God Help the Child