"Love is a won’erful thing. A mother al’ays loves her chillun. Don’t care whut dey do. Dey may do ‘rong but it’s still her chile. Den dere is de love uv’ va ‘oman fer her man, but it ain’t nut’in lack a mother’s love fer her chillun. I loves a man when he treats me right but I ain’t never had no graveyard love fer no man...."


- Sarah Fitzpatrick, former slave, 1938