Nightjohn

To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it’s bad for them. They thinks we want what they got . . . . That’s why they don’t want us reading. — Nightjohn’I didn’t know what letters was, not what they meant, but I thought it might be something I wanted to know. To learn.’–SarnySarny, a female slave at the Waller….Read More