“My aspiration to become a jurist had been laid to rest in the Graveyard of Failed Hopes, an all-female establishment. The sorrow of it had faded, but regret remained, and I’d taken to wondering if the Fates might be kinder to a different girl.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings
“Everything she knew came from living on the scarce side of mercy.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings
“My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it's the other way round.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings
“At the age of eleven, I owned a slave I couldn’t free.O”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings
“You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The Negro is not some other kind of creature than we are. Whiteness is not sacred. It can't on defining everything.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings
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