“It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.”
― Chains
― Chains
“Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind.”
― Chains
― Chains
“I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page”
― Chains
― Chains
“Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.”
― Chains
― Chains
“This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan. . . Look hard for your river Jordan, my child. You'll find it.”
― Chains
― Chains
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