Mildred D. Taylor

“did not blame others for his own stupidity; he learned from his mistake and became stronger for it.”

— Mildred D. Taylor

“Little Man turned around and watched saucer-eyed as a bus bore down on him spewing clouds of red dust like a huge…

— Mildred D. Taylor

“Because the students were needed in the fields from early spring when the cotton was planted until after most of the cotton…

— Mildred D. Taylor

We ain't never gonna lose this land.

— Mildred D. Taylor

“I ain’t saying you can’t do it, Moe. Papa say you can do jus’ ’bout anything you set your mind to do,…

— Mildred D. Taylor

Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What…

— Mildred D. Taylor

Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. ...…

— Mildred D. Taylor

I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a…

— Mildred D. Taylor

We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.

— Mildred D. Taylor

Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to…

— Mildred D. Taylor

“Big Ma didn't need to say any more and she didn't. T.J. was far from her favorite person and it was quite…

— Mildred D. Taylor

There are things you can't back down on, things you gotta take a stand on. But it's up to you to decide…

— Mildred D. Taylor

“He was often ridiculed by the other children at his school and had shown up more than once with wide red welts…

— Mildred D. Taylor

“Each second that goes by, we're all one second closer to the rest of our lives and our deaths.”

— Mildred D. Taylor

“It's tough out there, boy, and as long as there are people, there's gonna be somebody trying to take what you got…

— Mildred D. Taylor

“after all, the bible was always talking about miracles. i figured that if Daniel could get out of the lion's den alive…

— Mildred D. Taylor

These are things they need to hear, baby. It's their history.

— Mildred D. Taylor

“It was only then that I realized that Jeremy never rode the bus, no matter how bad the weather. As”

— Mildred D. Taylor

Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John…

— Mildred D. Taylor

“Winter came in days that were gray and still. They were the kind of days in which people locked in their animals…

— Mildred D. Taylor

She grabbed his arm. "Let it be, son!" she cried. "That child ain't hurt!" "Not hurt! You look into her eyes and…

— Mildred D. Taylor

“Times being like they is and all. But I figure times been hard all my life. Now don’t seem so much worse’n…

— Mildred D. Taylor

“In 1930 the price of cotton dropped. And so, in the spring of 1931, Papa set out looking for work, going as…

— Mildred D. Taylor

There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.

— Mildred D. Taylor

I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches…

— Mildred D. Taylor