Quotes from Sherley Anne Williams

Everyone thought because she was so too-ga-tha she didn't feel pain and the men she went with felt the same.

Now,' Kaine say, 'now this man free, bo'n free, but still, any white man what say he a slave be believed cause a nigga can't talk fo the laws, not ginst no white man, not even fo his own self.

Women must leave a record for their men; otherwise how will they know us?

Seem like they been wid each otha long nough now fo them to stop all that foolishness." Huh; you jes mad cause you ain't got nobody to be foolish wid.

This what chance will do, children, trample over all your dreams, swing a bony ankle in front of you.