Quotes by Nancy B. Brewer

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The Baptist Church rejects man with wooden leg: It appears the Baptist preacher refused to baptize a veteran of the late war in the holy water- saying they only baptize flesh and blood, not wood.

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Daddy-by Nancy B. Brewer When I used to say, speak up you are as good as they, You would just smile and say, let them have their way. When in my foolish youth, I so often disobeyed, He would just smile and say, let her have her way. When summer passe...

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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 always be cherished.

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The ragged curtains were reaching out across the room and the foot of the bed was soaked with rain. She got up and closed the window to protect her from the storm outside. However, there was no protection from the storm that was always brewing in her...

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I believe that all things happen under the watchful eye of God and the lessons we learn along the way only serve to make us stronger.

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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 along the way are not for our sake alone. We are obligated to share them

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Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.

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The curtains were not yet drawn and with the moonlight spreading across the room, I could see clearly. I undressed and slipped a soft cotton gown over my naked body. I pulled the blanket off the foot of my bed, covered my shoulders and wa...lked out ...

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Papa was our strength and the very fiber that wove our family together. He was our foundation and our rock, but even rocks, break, given enough stress.

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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 see me. Shortly I hear a horse leaving. There is much I do not know about him, but tonight I know one of his secrets. He is a midnig...

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It was a warm and natural feeling to be there. We were not black or white people. We were just people bound together by love and understanding. As I walked out of that church, I felt like I had rediscovered my inner peace.

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It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to the cotton warehouse

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Perhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left, but did you hear me cry out to you!

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Children worked in the mills: "I will always believe that children are designed for green meadows and play, not for factories and cotton dust.

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‎"He smiled at me and I felt the tenderness only a daughter could feel.

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According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats.

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Are you a traveling man he asked?

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The sun had just slipped behind the trees and evening cast its dark, smoky shadow.

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I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.

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I could faintly smell the ocean. I imagined being one of the old oak trees standing there swaying in the wind and braving all sorts of weather. I pondered what they had seen in the past and what they might see in the future

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Before I disappear behind the door, I stop and turn around to look at him.

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