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Men like Scott, men consumed by their egos and their desire to assert dominance at the top of hierarchies only they could see, didn’t have the capacity to set aside their petty aspirations even in the face of death.
It was the record of how you upheld or dishonored your oath.
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“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,”
this ate me UP
No one knows the hidden rivers of a man’s spirit like his mama.
To a lot of Black folks, including Jamal, he was now blue instead of Black.
This interests me because we desire for our kids to grow up and be everything we imagine until that image becomes blue and their blackness fades away with it
It was like they traded a secular addiction for a sanctified one.
“Even the finest sword plunged into saltwater will eventually rust.”
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Titus didn’t have the heart to tell Darlene that no one told anyone all their secrets. Even the people we loved kept pieces of themselves hidden away from the light.
Waiting for the world to shed tears for your pain was like waiting for a statue to speak.
“Terrible people can do good things sometimes. But they like doing the terrible things more.
And to remind Black Southerners that to some of their white neighbors they were just escaped cattle meant to be sacrificed on the altar of the Lost Cause.
But only Gilby owned her time. She could rest whenever she wanted. Albert’s hands had been tethered to another man’s whims.
abasement,
But secrets can be corrosive. You hold it in, and it starts eating your insides. Pretty soon you find yourself willing to do anything to stop the pain.
Sometimes grief is love unexpressed. Other times it’s regret made flesh.
both the scrapper and the gardener existing in the same man was a testament to the multifaceted tapestry that lives in us all.
You ever say anything about Helen Crown again, you gonna wake up with your teeth down your throat. You feel me?” Titus said.
The
man or the folks?
The kind of righteousness that came from the barrel of a gun. He knew now it was a false piousness. A lying piety that seduced you into believing the end justified the means.
“Evil is rarely complicated. It’s just fucking bold.” Titus touched the brim of his hat and left.
“Poor rabbit that only got one hole,”
“Our salvation is his suffering.”
“A man who don’t look you in the eye when you talk to him is a man that don’t respect you,”
Uriel,
URIEL
Pulled his lungs up so they would look like wings and then put a crown of thorns over his head. Uriel, the angel of wisdom, of knowledge. Is that because Cole knew too much?” Titus said in a low murmur.
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“A lie can be halfway around the world
while the truth is still pulling up his britches,”
himself as sheriff he would make sure his department was different.
What if you couldn’t change the system because it was working as intended?
but my mama always said the devil can quote the Good Book as well as any angel.
