Angelo Herndon Quote

My father... rarely smiled. Then I did not know why, but now I do know that it was overwork, under-nourishment and the burdens of daily living which had made a broken man out of him, although still so young in years. His eyes were perpetually inflamed by the coal dust which also gnawed away at his lungs and made him spit out black sputum.


p. 7 - Let Me Live (1937)


My father... rarely smiled. Then I did not know why, but now I do know that it was overwork, under-nourishment and the burdens of daily living which...

My father... rarely smiled. Then I did not know why, but now I do know that it was overwork, under-nourishment and the burdens of daily living which...

My father... rarely smiled. Then I did not know why, but now I do know that it was overwork, under-nourishment and the burdens of daily living which...

My father... rarely smiled. Then I did not know why, but now I do know that it was overwork, under-nourishment and the burdens of daily living which...