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A review by shhhh_shereading
Elbert: The Uncaged Mind by Joan Vassar
5.0
Elbert is THAT MAN!! I understood him so much and felt his pain. I’m glad he found his healing and peace. He needed Anna’s sweetness and softness. Anna needed his safety and protection, and without even knowing him long, she knew he was IT. The author really captures the emotions and ramifications of slavery in the male and female psyche. We are catapulted in a time machine with Joan Vassar’s writing. Can’t wait for next book!
Fav Quotes:
"What made you think me prey? What the fuck made you look at me and think you could own me... sell me? What the hell made you think a woman in my company was fair game?"
Men who have something to die for are men worth taking a stand with?
"Shame makes a man hide, and if'n a man is hidin' from peoples... just like peoples cain't see the real him, he cain't see peoples for what they is. Ya blind 'cause ya usin' all yo power hidin' rather than seein. I ain't raised no weak men folk, I's sho of that."
As a colored man, his freedom and manhood were all encompassing: he would not be reduced. His manhood was all he had to offer his woman, and he would not allow it to be fucked with. If these four men lived, there could be no life for him. There would have been no facing himself or her, it was just that simple.
Fav Quotes:
"What made you think me prey? What the fuck made you look at me and think you could own me... sell me? What the hell made you think a woman in my company was fair game?"
Men who have something to die for are men worth taking a stand with?
"Shame makes a man hide, and if'n a man is hidin' from peoples... just like peoples cain't see the real him, he cain't see peoples for what they is. Ya blind 'cause ya usin' all yo power hidin' rather than seein. I ain't raised no weak men folk, I's sho of that."
As a colored man, his freedom and manhood were all encompassing: he would not be reduced. His manhood was all he had to offer his woman, and he would not allow it to be fucked with. If these four men lived, there could be no life for him. There would have been no facing himself or her, it was just that simple.