All the Sinners Bleed

by S.A. Cosby

“The South doesn’t change … just the names and the dates and the faces.

“God can be everywhere at the same time if he wants, but he ain’t in every building that calls itself a church. You can stand in a pulpit and call yourself a minister. I can roll around in mud and call myself a pig too. Don’t mean you was called to preach, and it don’t mean I was meant to be pork chops,”

Waiting for the world to shed tears for your pain was like waiting for a statue to speak.

“What if me trying to hold the world together is what keeps me from falling apart?”