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“If we don’t celebrate the small movements forward, we forget they existed at all.”
Experience in life can only be judged by the obstacles one has to overcome to get it.”
Is missing something that hasn’t yet happened as potent as missing that which already has?
But what sin is worse, the sin of living in squalor with no hope as a prisoner in the place that’s supposed to be your haven or the sin of murdering your husband?
“Can’t always stand to the side, Oretta. Sometimes you got to try to change what you don’t like.”
When a woman marries and takes her husband’s name she is forever bound by his action and not her own.
“All your people built this town. Slave folk built the stores and churches, and the shelves and pews within.
“I suppose there is barbarism everywhere, in everyone, regardless of culture.”
“If you reach a point in life where it feels there is only dark around you, that’s ’cause there is. You got to find the light. A hole can be a haven, but you can’t stay in a hole forever. What’s dark must come to light. Every person needs the sun.”
Sorrow don’t know color.
A quiet place can still hold chaos.”
Men can’t bear what women must. They jump to cry insanity as cause for a woman’s unhappiness; the utterance of the unutterable must be dementia. It’s just too much to consider otherwise.
Historically, the N-word has been used as a tool to systematically degrade and dehumanize an entire race of people. To ignore its existence is to ignore the plight of what the African American community has endured at the hands of the white majority.
