Good Dirt Quotes

“History, too often, has been told from only certain perspectives. This is not good enough. History is a collective phenomenon. It can only be told through a chorus of voices. And that chorus must make room for new voices over time.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“Most of the trouble in this world boils down to one person not recognizing the worth of another.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“Be aware of a beautiful moment as it is happening. Take note of your life as you are living”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“The Mind Cannot Be Chained”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“Maybe all you can do is give yourself permission to embrace the rest of your life. To play, to love, to risk. To take the beauty that someone brought into your life and share it.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“Words have power. So does the absence of words. Sometimes, when people choose not to speak, their silence can block out the sun.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“There will always be men willing to steal the freedom of others if they think it will bring them an advantage,” Frenchie said.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“The heart of a person, even in troubled times, is a hopeful place.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“Things are always changing ... It's true, some of the worst things keep repeating themselves, but things do change. And as citizens, we can do our part to keep things moving in the right direction.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“How much of yourself do you have to renounce in order to have the life you think you want?”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“Love leaves a memory in the heart, even when your head tells you it shouldn’t.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“The feeling of home isn’t tied to one place only.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“These things could happen. Every moment in life is a confluence of events and you can’t see it all coming. You need to try not to, Ebby thinks. See it all. Otherwise, it leaves no room in your head to simply live.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“People saw their skin not their history”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“Most of the trouble in the world boils down to one person not recognizing the worth of another”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“Be aware of a beautiful moment as it is happening. Take note of your life as you are living it.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“History is a collective phenomenon. It can only be told through a chorus of voices.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“Be aware of a beautiful moment as it is happening, take note of your life, as you are living it”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“This was the true miracle of life, he thought. Not so much to be born as to bear up under what comes your way. To find a way forward. To embrace what was good.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“What had they done? This was the question that hung in the air above every black family that had ever run into misfortune. And not only. It was a subtext understood by so many women, of any color, who had ever been harmed. It was the question that few dared to ask out loud but many had in mind, with regard to families that struggled to pay the bills. It was the question asked by those who wishes to avoid acknowledging that responsibility might lie elsewhere. What did you do?”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“Sometimes, when people choose not to speak, their silence can block out the sun.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“Words had the power to feed resistance”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“If life had taught them anything, it was that a person’s path still could be lit by moments of joy, even after unspeakable loss.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“History is a collective phenomenon. It can only be told through a chorus of voices. And that chorus must make room for new voices over time.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“There will always be men willing to steal the freedom of others if they think it will bring them an advantage.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“People were wired to persevere. People were wired for hope. People might feel hurt, but they still liked to laugh. They might lose someone dear, but they still wanted to love.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“If life had taught them anything. it was that a person's path still could be lit by moments of joy even after unspeakable loss”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“resilience under trauma. You can’t prevent it, but you can find ways to hold up under the pressure, to continue to function well.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“Today will be different. Perhaps the only way to cope with loss, or guilt, is to name it and defy its potential to destroy you...
Maybe all you can do is give yourself permission to embrace the rest of your life. To play, to love, to risk. To take the beauty that someone brought into your life and share it.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“Life is too short, Ebby," Granny Freeman says. "You don't owe that boy anything. You owe yourself a person who can be with you through thick and thin.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt