He said he loved Blue. He said he loved the evil in Blue. He loves the evil in all people. Because in loving their evil, he loves the evil in himself enough to surrender it to God, who washes it clean...
God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.
Everybody got God on their side in war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.
Writer or a musician, not knowing that it was possible
Back, Daddy said. It’ll work out. He had no idea what to do about Helen. They spoke a completely different language. He was an old-timer who called school schoolin’ and called me boy. He had run off f...
Wonderful, he said. Tell me. Which books in the Bible do you favor?Oh, I favors 'em all, Pa said. But I mostly like Hezekiel, Ahab, Trotter, and Pontiff the Emperor.The Old Man frowned. I don't recoll...
There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is to take away t...
The enemy was irony and truth and hypocrisy, that was the real enemy. That was the enemy that was killing him.
Sometimes without conscious realization, our thoughts, our faith, out interests are entered into the past. We talk about other times, other places, other persons, and lose our living hold on the prese...
My siblings had already instilled the notion of black pride in me. I would have preferred that Mommy were black. Now, as a grown man, I feel privileged to have come from two worlds. My view of the wor...
He was like everybody in war. He believed God was on his side. Everybody got God on their side in a war. Problem is, God ain’t tellin’ nobody who He’s for.
You could see him coming from a distance, appearing out of nowhere like an angel, his silhouette seeming to rise from the ground in the simmering heat . . .
Most cars drove through there because the drivers is either from The Bottom and wanna get home - or they ain't from The Bottom and wanna get home in one piece.
I was ashamed of my mother, but see, love didn't come natural to me until I became a Christian.- Ruth McBride
I asked her who he was and she said, He was a man ahead of his time. She actually liked Malcolm X. She put him in nearly the same category as her other civil rights heroes, Paul Robeson, Jackie Robins...
There ain't no time for foolishness now. You in it now. You got to stay in it.
The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.