#rosaleeedit

Ain't nothing too big for Momma. You know that part inside of you? That clever part that gets you out of trouble and help you beat T.R. in games? Uh-huh. Well, I got that in me. Sam had it in him, too. We smart. Tough. We fighters. And we ain't getting none of that from Massa Tom. It come from Momma. She the smartest person I knows. She gonna find her way back to us.

What if I can't make my momma run with me? She pretty settled in her ways. So was mine. She was meant to wait out her bondage. She was always telling us how we was term slaves. We be free at 45. When I was younger, I thought that made us special. The promise of freedom if you just work harder. That's how they get you. My brother believed in that. And when the lie was exposed, and she learnt she was meant to be a slave forever, by that time, well, it was too late for her to take the journey by foot. But I put her on a carriage up north anyway,