"Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live."

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My great-grandmama told my grandmama the part she lived through that my grandmama didn't live through and my grandmama told my mama what they both lived through and my mama told me what they all lived through and we were suppose to pass it down like that from generation to generation so we'd never forget.

— Gayl Jones