Touched Quotes

“My coloring defined a place among others that was varied and inconsistent but rarely a benefit. Race had made me at once different and part of an imagined whole.”
― Walter Mosley, Touched

“It occurred to me, bowing there before my executioner, that ever since the beginning, life had not died. There was a spark somewhere a billion or more years ago and the flame of life had risen and raged, waned and sputtered, only to grow once more, spreading across the world. Death had never triumphed over life. I was part of a great conflagration that had kept itself ablaze for ages.”
― Walter Mosley, Touched