Some Soul to Keep Quotes

“So everybody who talks about homosexuals as a damnation better look in a mirror and try to heal their own selves. Who they call homosexuals do, at least, act out of their love. That’s better than the hate a whole lot of people act out of.”
― J. California Cooper, Some Soul to Keep

“This the kind of world, if you don’t die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes.”
― J. California Cooper, Some Soul to Keep

“Superior, do you understand me? These are white people. They are not like you, or me or us. They have the power to hurt you ... and sometimes it's fun to them when they do. Their power is not because they are smart ... it's because ... something happened sometime ... started somewhere and they got on top of the world. They got the power. The only power you got is to learn to live with them, learn to read their minds ... til you can do better. They don't treat each other right ... so don't you look to be treated right. You hear me? Sometimes there's good white people ... but don't you act like that til you know that.”
― J. California Cooper, Some Soul to Keep

“See, once a person see what you will do if they don’t, they let you keep on doin it! All of it! If you let them!”
― J. California Cooper, Some Soul to Keep

“I decided then that love love better be watched closely. So I did just that. Watched to see how everybody did their loving. I have been doing it now all my life, and all I can tell you . . . it is a lesson and a education to watch the way different people love, or don't love, other people.”
― J. California Cooper, Some Soul To Keep

“I don't care how much money you got . . . you can be poor WITH money . . . if you ain't got no love. And I don't want money kinda poor. Rich don't make you ALL rich. Love make you rich too!”
― J. California Cooper, Some Soul To Keep