Louise Meriwether Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to hug them all. We belonged to each other somehow...But that sweet feeling hung on and I loved all of Harlem gently and didn't want to be Puerto Rican or anything else but my own rusty self. — Louise Meriwether

This book should be sent to the White House, and to our earnest Attorney General, and to everyone in this country able to read - which may, however, alas, be a most despairing statement. We love - the white Americans, I mean - the notion of the little woman behind the great man: perhaps one day, Louise Meriwether will give us her version of What Every Woman Knows. — Louise Meriwether

It's darn today, damn tomorrow, and next week it'll be goddamn. — Louise Meriwether

I always knew I would turn a corner and run into this day, but I ain't prepared for it nohow. — Louise Meriwether

How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it? — Louise Meriwether