Emelina set a cup of tea in front of me. I picked it up and let the steam touch my eyelids, realizing that what I needed most at that moment was to lie in bed with someone who was fond of every inch o...
Don’t count on it. There’s a lot of white folks out there hanging on to their God-given right to look down on some other class of people
Doesn't the Federal Farm bill help out all these poor farmers?No. It used to, but ever since its inception just after the Depression, the Federal Farm Bill has slowly been altered by agribusiness lobb...
Corporate growers, if their only motive is profit, will find ways to follow the letter of organic regulations while violating their spirit.
Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.
Conquest and liberation and democracy and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain.
Certain ramshackle aspects of Dellarobia had also gone undercover, it seemed, just like the snow-covered barns. Some defects lurked, but for now her way seemed clear. She’d made plans.
Can one who hates right govern? Job 34:13,
But the pill did nothing, probably expired like everything else on the premises.
But mother wanted to consume me like food. I needed my won room. I needed books, and for the first time in my life I needed schoolmasters who would tell me each day what to think about.
But luck is just throwing dice.
But it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse. After
But his kind will always lose in the end. I know this, and now I know why. Whether it's wife or nation they occupy, their mistake is the same: they stand still, and their stake moves underneath them.....
But approaching mealtimes as a creative opportunity, rather than a chore, is an option.
But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go bad, you will blame yourself.' 'What are...
Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
Being a peacock is not the only way to hide yourself, Frida. A pigeon can hide.
Be sweet and carry a sharp knife, was her motto.
As the storm moved closer it broke into hundreds of pieces so that the rain fell here and there from the high clouds in long, curving gray plumes.
Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.