Nancy B. Brewer

Quotes

• “He is dressed in a long, white robe and in his hand is a white cap. I draw up as he passes down the hall; he does not se...”
• “Today’s breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have my memories o...”
• “Rebel Number Four" is waiting patiently by the door. I named him "Rebel Number Four," for he is the fourth of his kind I...”
• “I could faintly smell the ocean. I imagined being one of the old oak trees standing there swaying in the wind and bravin...”
• “It was a warm and natural feeling to be there. We were not black or white people. We were just people bound together by ...”
• “Like the magnolia tree, She bends with the wind,Trials and tribulation may weather her, Yet, after the storm her beauty ...”
• “I am a survivor. But I am not unique of the people that survived the great late war. We all have our stories to tell. Bu...”
• “The Baptist Church rejects man with wooden leg: It appears the Baptist preacher refused to baptize a veteran of the late...”
• “The pages that follow will be our journey of the life we built together here in Concord, North Carolina. These pages wil...”
• “To those of you who have lost your way, may my story serve as a reminder that life is a journey. The lessons we learn al...”
• “Listen, my child, to the voices of your ancestors. Take pride in our accomplishments; find your strength in our sufferin...”
• “{Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might a...”
• “I can hear my steps echo as I follow him to the end of the hall. The door to the small closet under the steps is standin...”
• “Papa was our strength and the very fiber that wove our family together. He was our foundation and our rock, but even roc...”
• “Children worked in the mills: "I will always believe that children are designed for green meadows and play, not for fact...”
• “(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am l...”
• “It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to th...”
• “To those of you who are enslaved by your past, may my story set you free. For youth is innocent and its beauty is to alw...”
• “Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if i...”
• “According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers...”
• “I believe that all things happen under the watchful eye of God and the lessons we learn along the way only serve to make...”
• “With time, grief has a way of slipping down in the crevices of your heart. It never really leaves; it just makes room fo...”
• “Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.”
• “I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.”
• “I don't know where we are, but we'll soon find our way home!" Le avventure di Pinocchio”
• “Perhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left, but did you hear me cry out to you!”
• “Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.”
• “The heavy smell of incense gave me an uneasy feeling as if I had walked into a tomb”
• “The sun had just slipped behind the trees and evening cast its dark, smoky shadow.”
• “For in the forest someone is always watching and someone is always listening!”
• “Before I disappear behind the door, I stop and turn around to look at him.”
• “Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.”
• “‎"He smiled at me and I felt the tenderness only a daughter could feel.”
• “He was wearing a little bag of “Mojo” around his neck.”
• “Are you a traveling man he asked?”