Status Updates From Inventing Victoria

"We will always have to be twice as good to get half as far."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress," she whispered. "That is what Frederick Douglass has said."

"I like my world small. No chance I get lost."

". . . do make something of yourself," she urged. "True, life is hard on us colored, but any chance come your way to rise in life, you must be like a dog with a bone so you don't end up all broke down when old."

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Mrs Keckley

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