# Quote — William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses

> “Dont you see?” he cried. “Dont you see? This whole land, the whole South, is cursed, and all of us who derive from it, whom it ever suckled, white and black both, lie under the curse? Granted that my people brought the curse onto the land: maybe for that reason their descendants alone can—not resist it, not combat it—maybe just endure and outlast it until the curse is lifted. Then your peoples’ turn will come because we have forfeited ours. But not now. Not yet. Dont you see?”

- Author: [William Faulkner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner.md)
- Book: [Go Down, Moses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/go-down-moses.md)
- Page: 266
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Faulkner#Go_Down,_Moses_(1942)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/go-down-moses/dont-you-see

## More from this book

> So let me say it: That nevertheless and notwithstanding old Carothers did own it. Bought it, got it, no matter; kept it, held it, no matter; bequeathed it: else why do you stand here relinquishing and repudiating? Held it, kept it for fifty years until you could repudiate it, while He—this Arbiter, this Architect, this Umpire—condoned—or did He? Looked down and saw—or did He? Or at least did nothing: saw, and could not, or did not see; saw, and would not, or perhaps He would not see—perverse, impotent, or blind: which?

p. 247 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/go-down-moses/so-let-me-say.md)

> You said how on that instant when Ikkemotubbe realised that he could sell the land to Grandfather, it ceased forever to have been his.

p. 286 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/go-down-moses/you-said-how.md)

> He will need to be just a little bigger than smart, and a little braver than either.

p. 203 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/go-down-moses/he-will-need.md)