15 quotes
You write in English and already you are touching things that should not be mentioned.
Tell Freedom (1954)
The concerts and theatres, the libraries and the parks, the bookshops and the clean, fresh looking tearooms, the buses and departmental stores.
Tell Freedom (1954)
All the years of his life had been spent walking through the land; from east to west, then back; from north to south, then back.
Tell Freedom (1954)
It seemed to me there was no sense in life. Things happened and no one seemed to know why.
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Twenty-second Street, the street where we lived, was strange and alien. The noise was frightening after the quiet of Elsburg.
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Light is white: dark is black.
Tell Freedom (1954)
Entering is stepping into a new Dark Age. The sea had once been here. In its retreat it had left a white, unyielding sand, grown dirty with time. It had left almost a desert.
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Oh––isn’t it lovely? That’s the one I want when we are rich!’ Her eyes were bright, her lips parted
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Found that the good things of this present are RESERVED FOR EUROPEANS ONLY
Tell Freedom (1954)
I pushed my nose and lip...I was inside the raindrop away from the misery of the cold damp room. I was in a place of warmth and sunshine, inside my raindrop world.
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He (Roderiques) was hungry and homeless. So I fed him. He told me something had gone wrong and he had to leave the Roman school. He said he had no people.
Tell Freedom (1954)
In the name of civilization, the dignity and worth of the African people has been grossly underrated, their progress retarded and aspirations frustrated, and the whole life undermined. They are compelled to live in appalling conditions of squalor, filth and isolation...
Tell Freedom (1954)
You are Colored. There are three kinds of people: white people, Colored people, and black people. The white people come first, then the Colored people, then the black people. Lee asks “Why?” but Aunt’s answer is, “Because it is so.
Tell Freedom (1954)
It was difficult for the Africans most of whom had taken European education and embraced Christian religion, to revert to the rapidly dying, outdated traditions and customs of their forefathers
Tell Freedom (1954)
In that time I had been accused of theft, I had been called all the pet names of abuse reserved by whites for blacks; I had carried heavy loads to the tram stop, and women had conveniently forgotten to pay.
Tell Freedom (1954)