Having Our Say : The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

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Summary: Should be required reading for all college English classes
Review: THis book was excellent I could not put it down, the writing and the memories were so vivid I was in tears for most of the novel. The movie did not do it justice. This book should have won an award simply based on the realism that it portrayed. The sister's cut no corners and spared no feelings in bringing to life the prejudices and bigotry that has permeated the consiousness of America for over 300 years and still does today. The people that were alive during the time of civil rights and reconstruction are a dying breed so their stories must be told, while the people still have the ability to tell it. GREAT BOOk!!!!

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Summary: History tells its own story
Review: This book was truly a blessing to have been written. These two women were extemely honorable and should be role models for everyone who consider family values to be important. The stresses and hardships that these women faced tell a dark and true history of how America once was and how many things stillhave not changed.

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Summary: First rate
Review: This is a must read book for anyone interested in history from a different perspective. They will walk you through the harlem renaissance, the depression, and more in their own unique voices. It'll make you cry and laugh and make you want more.

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Summary: Like kin folk
Review: This is a wonderful narrative by two ladies who could be anyone's great grandmothers or grandaunts. It's an integral, essential part of the American adventure that we are all living through. The photographs are most interesting! The range of colors among 'colored' people can be seen in those old family photos. How many so called 'white' people have relatives or ancestors that look/looked just like them? Come on, America! It's not about them! It's about us!

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Summary: Having Our Say
Review: This was a really good book. These two sisters (Sarah and Bessie Delany) brought the history of the past back to us in a very interesting way. They didn't teach hatred but instead they taught forgiveness and they gave a great insight on how people our and how you just have to move past that. They taught how without the essence of God they wouldn't have made it through and that's true. I admire these sisters because they stick together and they remind me of the love I have for my cousin. Although old fashioned they were up to date.

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Summary: Loved the Book? See the Play!
Review: This wonderful memoir by two accomplished African-American women, written after they passed 100, has been beautifully dramatized. It is now playing at the Intiman Theater in Seattle, running through mid-December. Run, don't walk, to the box office. We saw it last Sunday, and left the theater brimming with admiration and optimism.

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Summary: when will it end!!!
Review: to put it quite simply this is a horrible book. I have never been so bored by a book in my entire life. the stories of their lives cannot be extraplated to stand for larger ideas in the world, and the author fails in trying to do so. The book does not seem to end. I had to put it down barely half way through.