Daughters of the Dust (1991)

Cora Lee Day: Nana Peazant

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Nana Peazant : I am the first and the last. I am the honored one and the scorned one. I am the whore and the holy one. I am the wife and the virgin. I am the barren one and many are my daughters. I am the silence that you can not understand. I am the utterance of my name.

• Eli Peazant : What're we supposed to remember, Nana? How, at one time, were we able to protect those we loved? How, in Africa world, we were kings and queens and built great big cities?

  Nana Peazant : Eli, I'm trying to teach you how to touch your own spirit. I'm fighting for my life, Eli, and I'm fighting for yours. Look in my face! I'm trying to give you something to take north with you, along with all your great big dreams.

• Nana Peazant : There must be a connection... We are two people in one body; nanas of the old and the force of the new.