Читать книгу A Kind of Freedom - Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - Страница 9

Still running with bare feet, I ain’t got nothing but my soul. Freedom is the ultimate goal. Life and death is small on the whole, in many ways. I’m awfully bitter these days ’cause the only parents God gave me, they were slaves, and it crippled me.

—TALIB KWELI, “Four Women”

They were the children of once-upon-a-time slaves, born into a kind of freedom, but they had traveled down through the wombs with what all their kind had been born with—the knowledge that God had promised next week to everyone but themselves.

—EDWARD P. JONES, All Aunt Hagar’s Children