The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-come, and you never will outpace your grief.
“The committee hanged the body “from an oak tree on the courthouse lawn.” People reportedly displayed Neal’s fingers and toes as souvenirs. Postcards of his dismembered body went for fifty cents each. When the sheriff cut down the body the next morning, a mob of as many as two thousand people demanded that it be rehanged. When the sheriff refused to return it to the tree, the mob attacked the courthouse and rampaged through Marianna, attacking any colored person they ran into. Well-to-do whites hid their maids or sent cars to bring their workers to safety. “We needed these people,” said a white man who sat on his porch protecting his interests with a loaded Winchester. Florida Governor David Sholtz had to call in the National Guard to quell the mob. Across”
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
“And the way you find out how much they care is by looking into the eyes—eyes never learn how to lie.”
― Petals on the Wind
― Petals on the Wind
“It was an empowering thing, she thought, to be able to pick and choose what and whom she allowed in her life.”
― Divas of Damascus Road
― Divas of Damascus Road
“I want you to understand that what is black to one person is white to another. And nothing in this world is so perfect that it is pure white, or so bad it is pure black. Everything concerning human beings comes in shades of gray, Carrie.”
― Petals on the Wind
― Petals on the Wind
“Too much money buys everything but health, so they have no dreams left to purchase, and no aspirations, so in the end they are only bored.”
― Petals on the Wind
― Petals on the Wind
Raven’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Raven’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Polls voted on by Raven
Lists liked by Raven
















































