Golden Poppies (Freedman/Johnson, #3)

by Laila Ibrahim

“Jordan, when you first born, you cry and the folks around you have smiles on they faces. If you live you life right, when you die you have a smile on you face and the folks surroundin’ you have tears in they eyes.”

“You cannot change that man, but you can learn the truth about the world and decide what kind of person you want to be.”

even though ninety-nine out of one hundred men will leave you in peace, it only takes the one or two with hatred in their souls to destroy your entire life.”

America has much to learn before she can be the justice-loving, Christian progressive nation that she deludes herself into thinking she now is.

“You set your fear right next to your hope until you know which one is the truth.”