Quotes from Beverly Jenkins

Now darlin. Nothing I want more than to take you in the house and make love to you a hundred times, catch my breath, and start over again.

She didn't want to have to spend her days battling her reactions to those male eyes of his, but then again, maybe she'd build up an immunity to them, the way children built up an immunity to the pox.

When it became certain that Master McCray was going broke, he wanted to sell you, but I begged him not to sell us separately. I took on work in his fields hoping to help increase his profits. Fannie volunteered to be auctioned off if it meant you and I could stay together.

Las sergas de Esplandian,

You ever use that mouth for something besides sassing?

For me, one of the most compelling and heartbreaking was the incident at Rock Springs. The events told through Colt's participation are true. In the end, the Chinese did return to work but it took an act of Congress to award them their back pay. The U.S. Army built Camp Pilot Butte in Rock Springs to keep the peace, and stationed soldiers there for the next thirteen years.

Another interesting aspect was my brief mention of Dr. Alexander Augusta. Born free in Virginia in 1825, he was the highest ranking Black officer in the Union Army, and went on to become the first African-American professor of medicine.

Black Spaniard by the name of Estabanico. He,

Once word got out about who he really was, he was sure Wally was going to be ecstatic over never having to publicly acknowledge him again.

Women can't advance if they pick up their skirts and run every time a man growls." Dix

Natalie Greer is as spoiled as a pan of milk set out in the sun.

Jim Beckwourth,

Archer got the distinct impression that he'd offended her. An offended whore?

William Leidesdorff,

She wanted to be valued and loved, two things sorely missing from her life, and she didn't think it ludicrous or wrong for a woman her age to have such dreams.

The brown paper bag test was well-known. Eddy always saw it as both shameful and ridiculous.

In fleeing the death and fear being fueled by White Leaguers and kluxers, southern Blacks left the well known for the unknown and never looked back.

From your lips to the good Lord's ears.

bigotry practiced by those outside the race was harmful enough without bigotry being meted out by those within.

The 1857 Supreme Court decision of Dred Scott vs Sanford continued to influence judiciary thinking, and he doubted its ramifications would be banished in his lifetime, if ever.

They'd also considered themselves distinct enough from the rest of the Blacks in the country to have met with Lincoln during the war in an effort to have themselves declared a separate class and thus eligible for the rights inherent in such a designation, but the effort had failed.

Sometimes God gives you things not because you like them, but because you need them

Life has many sorrows, but it can potentially hold Solace and Love as well.

Life's too short not to embrace the things that could bring us Joy!