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Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living side by side.
Their sharp memories show us the post-Reconstruction South and Booker T. Washington; Harlem's Golden Age and Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Paul Robeson. Bessie breaks barriers to become a dentist; Sadie quietly integrates the New York City system as a high school teacher. Their extraordinary story makes an important contribution to our nation's heritage--and an indelible impression on our lives.
Their sharp memories show us the post-Reconstruction South and Booker T. Washington; Harlem's Golden Age and Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Paul Robeson. Bessie breaks barriers to become a dentist; Sadie quietly integrates the New York City system as a high school teacher. Their extraordinary story makes an important contribution to our nation's heritage--and an indelible impression on our lives.
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4 member(s) found this review helpful.
Fun book -- it's like "hearing" the two women talk about their lives. They have great personalities that come through as they share about their experiences living as African American women over the last 100 years.
Ivy
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Great book, I really enjoyed it. You fall in love with these two sisters and they help you to remember what life was like "back in the day". Wonderful book.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Excellent history of two sisters and their first 100 years together. Interesting - not a lesson on history, but a reliving that takes the reader into the Delany sisters home and family.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I have read this book multiple times and each time I feel like I am getting to know them better and better.
This book is written as if they are sitting right next to you telling a story. I love it!
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1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I really enjoyed this book. It was interesting and inspiring. To see women this old and really enjoying and living life to the hilt, makes me think, "I can do this too when I am old". A very enjoyable book.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I'm not a twin or black or 100 years old, yet as I read this book I felt as if I had become all of these. What a wonderful legacy she - and they have left us! When I finished reading the book, I felt blessed!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
What a wonderful read! I couldn't put the book down. I even stopped my car on the way home from work one day to finish a few more pages, since I knew my kids wouldn't give me a chance to read when I got home!
Having Our Say chronicles the lives of two centegenarian sisters, the Delanys. 2 of 10 children of a former slave and his wife, they follow the success of all the Delany children, but especially tell their own life stories. Their autobiographies also follow the course of American history during their 100+ years of life.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I thoroughly enjoyed this account of these two sisters telling of the years they spent living side by side and the hurdles they overcame to get where they wanted to be being black women in the South.
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Wonderful personal rememberances of two elderly sisters. It makes you wish you could have met them.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I really did love this book. Two extraordinary women tell their stories of a century of American History, and of family, love and living 'forever' The Delaney Sisters first 100 years.
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ROBERT T. (COULD YOU SURVIVE 100 YEARS OF LIVING SIDE BY SIDE WITH A SIBLING? THIS BOOK TELLS YOU HOW TO DO IT WITH PANACHE.
From back cover: "This book is destined to become a classic! The Delany Sisters...leave to us the best of legacies--two sets of dancing footprints for us to follow all our days ahead."--Clarissa Pinkola Estes, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves
Wonderful book about the DeLaney sisters and their life. Their stories of how life has changed in the last 100 years are touching, funny and give you something to think about. I read this book in one day. I couldn't put it down
Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their minds in a book that is a vital historial record and a moving portrait of two sisters who love, laugh, and embrace life after one hundred years of living side by side.
Bessie breaks barriers to become a dentist; Sadie quietly integrates the New York City school system as a high school teacher. Their extraordinary story makes an important contribution to our nations heritage and leaves an indelible impression on our lives.
Sue E. (Warm, feisty and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their minds in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two sisters who love, laugh and embrace life after one hundred years of living side by side.
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