"Nightjohn" Quotes
A young slave girl learns to read and write with the help of a defiant new arrival named Nightjohn.
historical fiction | 112 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
An educated mind is not easily enslaved.
You got to understand, when things are a certain way, they ain't never going to be another way.
A body's mind and a mind's body is the same thing. You hurt one, you hurt the other.
Anything that makes you more than an animal is something to hold on to.
Ain't nothin' in this world more powerful than words.
But when you know the letters of the alphabet, you know the world.
It's hard to be free when you're bought and sold in the marketplace.
A man got to have a dream. If you don't have a dream, what you got?
You got to be careful with things you don't understand. You could get hurt.
You got to make your own way, Sarny. You got to do what's right for you.
