That Evening Sun Quotes

[…] even the Negro women who still take in white people's washing after the old custom, fetch and deliver it in automobiles.But fifteen years ago, on Monday morning the quiet, dusty, shady street...

The jailer cut her down and revived her; then he beat her, whipped her. She had hung herself with her dress. She had fixed it all right, but when they arrested her she didn't have on anything excep...

Monday is no different from any other weekday in Jefferson now. [...] even the Negro women who still take in white people's washing after the old custom, fetch and deliver it in automobiles. But f...

"It never come off of your vine, though," Nancy said."Off of what vine?" Caddy said."I can cut down the vine it did come off of," Jesus said. (1.16-18)

"When you going to pay me, white man? When you going to pay me, white man? It's been three times now since you paid me a cent—" Mr. Stovall knocked her down, but she kept on saying, "When you goi...