Alice Walker
- The Color Purple
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
Tayari Jones
- An American Marriage
Home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.
Michele Harper
- The Beauty in Breaking
Forgiveness condones nothing, but it does cast off the chains of anger, judgment, resentment, denial, and pain that choke growth. In this way, it allows for life, for freedom. So that's what's at stake when it comes to forgiveness: freedom. With this freedom, we can feel better, be better, and choose better next time.
Patrick Ness
- Chaos Walking
Choices may be unbelievably hard but they are never impossible. To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
