Go Tell It on the Mountain Quotes

Once he and Roy had watched a man and woman in the basement of a condemned house. They did it standing up. The woman had wanted fifty cents, and the man had flashed a razor. (1.1.4)

"Your Daddy beats you," she said, "because he loves you."

[…] Florence was a girl, and would by and by be married, and have children of her own, and all the duties of a woman; and this being so, her life in the cabin was the best possible preparation fo...

There was sin among them. One Sunday, when regular service was over, Father James had uncovered sin in the congregation of the righteous. He had uncovered Elisha and Ella Mae. They had been "walkin...

Every Sunday morning, then, since John could remember, they had taken to the streets, the Grimes family on their way to church. (1.1.4)

Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father. It had been said so often that John, without ever thinking about it, had come to believe it himself. No...

"You going North," her mother said, then. "And when you reckon on coming back?" "I don't reckon on coming back," she said. (2.1.49-50)

It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white people also said it, in fact had said it first and said it still. (1.1.29)