"Manchild in the Promised Land" Quotes
A gritty coming-of-age memoir set in Harlem during the 1940s and 50s, depicting the struggles and triumphs of a young African American man.
nonfiction | 416 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.
The streets have a thousand voices, and all of them speak to me.
When you are born into a world where you don't fit in, it's because you were born to help create a new one.
I don't know how to live good. I only know how to survive.
I wanted to be free, but I didn't know what freedom was.
Some people are born to own the world, while others are born to fight for it.
The hardest thing in the world is to change a man's nature.
Life was a big gamble, and we were all betting against the odds.
The worst thing about prison was the way it killed a man's dreams.
Sometimes the only way to survive was to forget who you were.
