Don't Cry for Me
Daniel Black
Top 10 Best Quotes
“No one should diminish themselves to prove their love.”
“If you get nothing else from this letter, understand that I never knew how to love. I dreamed of it, but I never experienced it. What I knew was pain. So that's what I gave you. I'd never seen a black life free from it, so my job as a father, I assumed, was to prepare your back for the load. I hope that, after you read this, you'll return my pain to me. But you might not. We get used to it, the weight of the pain, and when it threatens to go, we sometimes hold on to it for dear life. But there's no joy while it lingers near.”
“I want readers to reconsider the capacity of our fathers’ hearts. Many of them were handed so little, yet we expected so much.”
“Pride really can kill a man. Actually, it makes him kill himself. He justifies his errors and creates his own righteousness in his mind.”
“Pride can really kill a man. Actually, it makes him kill himself. He justifies his errors and creates his own righteousness in his mind. Grandma used to say, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death.”
“Knowledge is a funny thing. It informs by exposing. It shows you precisely how much you don't know.”
“Hurt is worse than anger. Anger dwells in the head, then fades. Hurt lingers in the soul. It rearranges your feelings without your permission. It blinds you.”
“Everything we did, whether we were aware or not, we did with white people in mind. Our life's aim was to make them believe we had value and worth, so we spent our nights trying to figure out what they liked, then spent our days trying to do it. We still haven't pleased them, and truth is, we never will.”
“We lived lives of desperate hope, afraid that white people's disapproval equaled our destruction.”
“Slavery been over." "No it ain't. Not in our minds. We didn't start this mess about light skin versus dark skin and all that shit. They started that. We just inherited it.”
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Book Keywords:
pride, righteousness, forgiveness
