Temple Folk Quotes

“No loving God, I reckoned, would allow a recounting of his miracles to render some human beings more worthy of home than others.”
― Aaliyah Bilal, Temple Folk

“And the truth we all failed to acknowledge was this: organized Black hate was neither harmless nor trivial. James knew that; I knew that—but its large-scale victims were not white. They were we—the children of the Nation, and all our forebears who led us to their ranks.”
― Aaliyah Bilal, Temple Folk

“As the descendants of slaves, we were already steeped in imagination. It was imagining a better world for our people that led many of us out of the church and to the Messenger, and when he died, it was imagination that made us follow his son from the Nation to the worldwide ummah. If we could only pass on one thing to our children, it was imagination.”
― Aaliyah Bilal, Temple Folk

“Even though I suspected it was for the best, I felt bad about manipulating my father, and in that moment I realized something; I did not believe in God. As quickly as the revelation came, it dawned on me that I had never believed. I’d always questioned the claims of religion, though the day’s events had finally given me my reason. No loving God, I reckoned, would allow a recounting of his miracles to render some human beings more worthy of home than others.”
― Aaliyah Bilal, Temple Folk