|Key Quotations from Letters 76 - 90|
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"Iím busy making pants for Sofia. One leg be purple, one leg be
red. I dream Sofia wearing these pants, one day she was jumping over the
"I am a very wealthy woman, and I own a village in Akwee."
"And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that
truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect
"No matter how you kiss Ďem, as far as Iím concern, frogs is
what they stay."
"When it come to what folks do together with they bodies, he say,
anybodyís guess is as good as mine. But when you talk bout love I donít
have to guess. I have love and I have been love. And I thank God he let me
gain understanding enough to know love canít be halted just cause
peoples moan and groan."
"Nettie say one thing about Africans, Out of sight, out of
"They tried to explain to the missionaries that it was they who
put Adam and Eve out of village because they was not naked. Their word for
naked is white. But since they are covered by colored they are not
"Why us suffer. Why us black. Why us men and women."
"Dear God. Dear stars, dear trees, dear sky, dear peoples. Dear
"White people busy celebrating they independence from England July
4th, so most black folks donít have to work. Us can spend the
day celebrating each other."
Written by Matthew Kane