Black Sunshine Quotes

“even if you are worthless as wings on a goat.” She”
― Ninie Hammon, Black Sunshine

“Honey, the Bible ain’t no potluck dinner! It ain’t like you’re ’llowed to be choicey, pick only the parts you like—nothin’ but cherry pie—and ignore the hard parts. Either it’s all true or ain’t none of it is. And the Bible says we got to forgive. Not it’d be nice if we did. Or we’d oughta if ’n we feel like it. Says we got to. That there’s the beginnin’ and the end of it.” The”
― Ninie Hammon, Black Sunshine

“Then, I got up one mornin’ and I forgived you. I got up the next mornin’ and forgived you again. And the next.” She sighed. “The Bible says you got to forgive seven times seventy times, and folks think that means forgivin’ that many hurts. But that ain’t it a-tall. What it means is that it takes that many times and more to forgive one hurt, ’cause you got to do it over and over, ever day. Until one day, the forgiveness comes down outta your head—outta your mouth where you been sayin’ it but not meanin’ it—and it lands in your heart.” She patted her flat chest. “When it lands here, the forgivin’s done.” Her”
― Ninie Hammon, Black Sunshine

“You know, you’re only as sick as your secrets,” Deke said. “Easy for you to say; you don’t know my secrets.” The”
― Ninie Hammon, Black Sunshine

“He couldn’t let himself wander around out there in tomorrow; it was dark and scary and spooky out there. Today was warm, happy, and good. He’d stay right here in today.”
― Ninie Hammon, Black Sunshine