Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The People Could Fly.
Transformation Quotes
They say the people could fly. Say that long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic. (1)
Freedom and Confinement Quotes
The ones that could fly shed their wings. They couldn't take their wings across the water on the slave ships. (2)
Memory and the Past Quotes
They say the people could fly. Say that long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic. (1)
Suffering Quotes
Now Sarah carried a babe tied to her back. She trembled to be so hard worked and scorned. (5)