Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Louise Meriwether

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Louise Meriwether.
Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Louise Meriwether

Louise Meriwether is an American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, as well as a writer of biographies of historically important African Americans for children. She is best known for her first novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner (1970), which draws on autobiographical elements about growing up in Harlem during the Depression and in the era after the Harlem Renaissance.

How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it? — © Louise Meriwether
How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?
It's darn today, damn tomorrow, and next week it'll be goddamn.
I always knew I would turn a corner and run into this day, but I ain't prepared for it nohow.
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