Praying for Sheetrock Quotes

“But I believe we don't know folks, we're acquainted with them. There's always something in an individual you ain't never going to know.”
― Melissa Fay Greene, Praying for Sheetrock

“... "In Grandfather's day," said Henry Curry, a gentle and elegant man in his nineties, the patriarch of the black community and a church deacon, "they didn't have the education, but here what 'tis: If you had any trouble your trouble is my trouble ...”
― Melissa Fay Greene, Praying for Sheetrock

“A funeral was a thing they understood; dissent was something they did not.”
― Melissa Fay Greene, Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction