Quotes About Survival

That's true," Turner said. "That doesn't mean I can't see how it works. Maybe I see things more clearly because of it." He made a face as the soap powder gave him a kick. "The key to in here is the same as surviving out there—you got to see how people act, and then you got to figure out how to get around them like an obstacle course. If you want to walk out of here.

The peculiar institution made Cora into a maker of lists as well. In her inventory of loss, people were not reduced to sums, but multiplied by their kindnesses.

them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.

His trick: Don't speculate where the slave is headed next. Concentrate instead on the idea that he is running away from

Sometimes the fever subsided, but the plantation was always still there. Cora did not pray.

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. With the surgeries that Dr. Stevens described, Cora

Their daddies taught them how to keep a slave in line, passed down this brutal heirloom. Take him away from his family, whip him until all he remembers is the whip, chain him up so all he knows is chains. A term in an iron sweatbox, cooking his brains in the sun, had a way of bringing a buck around, and so did a dark cell, a room aloft in darkness, outside time.

Fear drove these people, even more than cotton money.

Slavery as a moral issue never interested Ethel. If God had not meant for Africans to be enslaved, they wouldn't be in chains. She did, however, have firm ideas about not getting killed for other people's high-minded ideas.

The type of guys Pepper sought were single-room-occupancy men, hot-plate men, shitty tippers who never passed a pay phone without checking for errant dimes, and they dreamed of fire.

To escape the boundary of the plantation was to escape the fundamental principles of your existence: impossible.

Nie chodzi tylko o to, ?eby przetrwa?, ale aby ?y?.

She wondered where he escaped from, how bad it was, and how far he traveled before he put it behind him.

In America the quirk was that people were things. Best to cut your losses on an old man who won't survive a trip across the ocean.

Cora remembered Caesar's words about the men at the factory who were hunted by the plantation, carrying it here despite the miles. It lived in them. It still lived in all of them, waiting to abuse and taunt when chance presented itself.

A??r iÅŸe dayanmak ve bizi daha da yükseltmek için güçlü olmam?z gerekiyor. Domuzlar? ÅŸiÅŸmanlat?yorsak bunu hayatta kalmak için domuzlara ihtiyac?m?z olduÄŸundan yap?yoruz, hoÅŸumuza gittiÄŸinden deÄŸil. Ama sizin fazla ak?llanman?za izin veremeyiz. Bizden h?zl? koÅŸacak kadar zinde olman?za izin veremeyiz.

Cora thought he had a mean face, like a burl sprouting from a squat, sweaty trunk.

Stubborn breaks when it don't bend, and his family had spent too much time with the kindly white folks in the north. Kindly in that they didn't see fit to kill you fast. One thing about the south, it was not patient when it came to killing negroes. In

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. With the surgeries that Dr. Stevens described, Cora thought, the whites had begun stealing futures in earnest. Cut you open and rip them out, dripping. Because that's what you do when you take away someone's babies--steal their future. Torture them as much as you can when they are on this earth, then take away the hope that one day their people will have it better.

Her price fluctuated. When you are sold that many times, the world is teaching you to pay attention.

How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch?

They rounded up the Indians in camps, the women and children and whatever they could carry on their backs, and marched them west of the Mississippi. The Trail of Tears and Death

You need to be strong to survive the labor and to make us greater. We fatten hogs, not because it pleases us but because we need hogs to survive. But we can't have you too clever. We can't have you so fit you outrun us." She

There had been no kidnapped boys swabbing the decks and earning pats on the head from white kidnappers.