Status Updates From The Learning Tree

Parks is masterful at setting these quaint scenes of countryside and boyhood. It is definitely a coming of age tale that is semi-autobiographical in nature.

“Whatever judgment settled upon her, he thought, would surely be the best that eternity could possibly extend.” ✨ page 219

“What happens in the future will be determined by what we learned from the past.” Page 111 ✨

“A white man don’t take his religion out of church. He locks it up there for safekeeping, so it’s fresh and clean on Sunday morning when he comes to wash his week’s sinning away.” Page 91

“I think sometimes if all the people in the world were made up of colors like that instead of just some black and some white, it would be a happier world. A wonderful world all mixed up with wonderful colored people, nobody bein’ the same as anybody else.” Pg 59 ✨

“If you got a battle to fight, you cain’t rightfully ask the Lord to help you and not the other fella. Now can you?” ✨ page 29