Maeve’s Reviews > The Fire Next Time > Status Update
Maeve
is on page 52 of 89
“You must consider what happens to this citizen, after all he has endured, when he returns - home: search, in his shoes, for a job, for a place to live; ride, in his skin, on segregated buses; see, with his eyes, the signs saying ‘White’ and ‘Coloured’, and especially the signs that say ‘White Ladies’ and ‘Coloured Women’ […]”
— Jan 21, 2023 11:33AM
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Maeve
is on page 83 of 89
“It is entirely unacceptable that I should have no voice in the political affairs if my own country, for I am not a ward of America; I am one of the first Americans to arrive on these shores.”
— Jan 22, 2023 08:19AM
Maeve
is on page 76 of 89
“People are perpetually attempting to find their feet on the shifting sands of status.”
— Jan 22, 2023 06:53AM
Maeve
is on page 75 of 89
“It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.”
— Jan 22, 2023 06:46AM
Maeve
is on page 45 of 89
“Priests and nuns and school-teachers helped to protect and sanctify the power that was so ruthlessly being used by people who were indeed seeking a city, but not one in the heavens, and one to be made, very definitely, by captive hands.”
— Jan 18, 2023 01:56PM
Maeve
is on page 40 of 89
“I really mean that there was no love in the church. It was a mask for hatred and self-hatred and despair. The transfiguring power of the Holy Ghost ended when the service ended, and salvation stopped at the church door.”
— Jan 18, 2023 07:50AM
