01UndatedThe sun had just slipped behind the trees and evening cast its dark, smoky shadow.Nancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
02UndatedI can hear my steps echo as I follow him to the end of the hall. The door to the small closet under the steps is standing ajar. He closes the door and latches it.Nancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
03UndatedIt was a warm and natural feeling to be there. We were not black or white people. We were just people bound together by love and understanding. As I walked out of that church, I felt like I had rediscovered my inner peace.Nancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
04UndatedThe pages that follow will be our journey of the life we built together here in Concord, North Carolina. These pages will reveal fragments from the past and events that occurred along the way.Nancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
05Undated"He smiled at me and I felt the tenderness only a daughter could feel.Nancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
06UndatedIt was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to the cotton warehouseNancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
07UndatedHe is dressed in a long, white robe and in his hand is a white cap. I draw up as he passes down the hall; he does not see me. Shortly I hear a horse leaving. There is much I do not know about him, but tonight I know one of his secrets. He is a midnight rider.Nancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
08Undated(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)Nancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
09UndatedTo those of you who are enslaved by your past, may my story set you free. For youth is innocent and its beauty is to always be cherished.Nancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
10UndatedI am a survivor. But I am not unique of the people that survived the great late war. We all have our stories to tell. But for most of us the hardened corners have soften with the passage of time.Nancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
11UndatedListen, my child, to the voices of your ancestors. Take pride in our accomplishments; find your strength in our suffering. For WE are not just voices in the wind, WE are a living part of YOUNancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
12UndatedI could faintly smell the ocean. I imagined being one of the old oak trees standing there swaying in the wind and braving all sorts of weather. I pondered what they had seen in the past and what they might see in the futureNancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
13UndatedChildren worked in the mills: "I will always believe that children are designed for green meadows and play, not for factories and cotton dust.Nancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
14UndatedPapa was our strength and the very fiber that wove our family together. He was our foundation and our rock, but even rocks, break, given enough stress.Nancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
15UndatedPerhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left, but did you hear me cry out to you!Nancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
16UndatedAin’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.Nancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
17UndatedThe Baptist Church rejects man with wooden leg: It appears the Baptist preacher refused to baptize a veteran of the late war in the holy water- saying they only baptize flesh and blood, not wood.Nancy B. Brewer / quote ↗
