"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
This is a book about a femail african american who lives in the old times.
p.21
You got to fight them, Celie, she say. i can't do it for you. you got to fight them for yourself.
I don't say nothing. I think about Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight. I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.
p.158