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“Once you tell a lie, you have to keep tellin’ and tellin’ and tellin’ to make it stand.”
― The Pecan Man
― The Pecan Man
“But, it never dawned on me how wrong it was that I tied her innocence to the fact that she was with me, not who she was, and I am humbled by my ignorance.”
― The Pecan Man
― The Pecan Man
“The older I get, the less I care what people think of me, but I care a great deal about people knowing my business.”
― The Pecan Man
― The Pecan Man
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“But Little Grandmother did not keep in touch with her namesake, my mother, Margaret Morris. News about Will Morris's younger daughter reached the "white" side through Mamie. They knew where she was, what she was doing, and who she was doing it with. Most important, they knew she had chosen to stay negro.
It is still a matter of speculation as to why my mother's father or one of her much older brothers or her sister did not keep in touch with her and her younger brother. Over the years, Aunt Mamie and my mother's various guardians supplied different explanations. The times were hard. They were bad for mulattoes and worse for "real" Negroes. There was little money around. Her father drank, drifted and could not keep jobs. Her teenage siblings could barely keep jobs ...... She was too dark, revealing both the Negro and swarthy Italian strains of her ancestry. Her color would give them away in their new white settings.
All of these reasons were plausible. None of them sufficed. None could take away the pain, the anger, the isolation, the questions.”
― Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White
It is still a matter of speculation as to why my mother's father or one of her much older brothers or her sister did not keep in touch with her and her younger brother. Over the years, Aunt Mamie and my mother's various guardians supplied different explanations. The times were hard. They were bad for mulattoes and worse for "real" Negroes. There was little money around. Her father drank, drifted and could not keep jobs. Her teenage siblings could barely keep jobs ...... She was too dark, revealing both the Negro and swarthy Italian strains of her ancestry. Her color would give them away in their new white settings.
All of these reasons were plausible. None of them sufficed. None could take away the pain, the anger, the isolation, the questions.”
― Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White
“We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.”
― Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
― Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
“It was an old story so rubbed with retelling that the edges were blurry.”
― Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
― Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
“It's so much easier to tell other people how to do their job than fix one's own shortcoming, isn't it?”
― Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
― Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
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Thanks so much, Donna!! I'm hard at work now on a sequel to What Matters in Mayhew. Look for movie news soon on The Pecan Man!
All the best!
Cass
All the best!
Cass