Top 6 Barbara Neely Quotes (2025 Update)

Barbara Neely Quote: “Maybe his stuff was so good it made her think she could fly!”

1. “Maybe his stuff was so good it made her think she could fly!”

2. “The longer I live, the more boring youth becomes. So redundant. Each generation rediscovers the wheel of rebellion, the wheel of love, and so forth and so on. We hardly know which end is up until we’re in our thirties.”

— Barbara Neely

3. “Anytime you get this many light-skinned black people together at least half of them are going to be folks who act light-skinned.”

— Barbara Neely

4. “Southern law enforcement people were even worse: the descendants of the paddyrollers and overseers who’d made their living grinding her kind into fertilizer in the cotton fields of slavery.”

— Barbara Neely

5. “A family couldn’t have domestic help and secrets.”

— Barbara Neely

6. “She knew from other places she’d worked that rich people liked owning things made by different kinds of people – Africans, Eskimos, Native Americans. It didn’t seem to matter what the object looked like, or to what gory purpose it might have been put, as long as it had belonged to some other people first, and as long ago as possible.”

— Barbara Neely

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