Don't you know everything?" God smiled. "No, I outgrew that trick long ago. You can't imagine how boring it was. - Octavia E. Butler

We were snatched away and given alone into the hands of people who believed that it was their duty to break us and remake us in the Christian American image. And, of course, breaking people is much easier than putting them together again.
So much agony caused, so much evil done in God’s name.

If you don’t care about my people, why should I care about yours?

“It was an old passion,” he said. “I haven’t touched a violin for months. I didn’t know what that would be like.”
“What is it like?” she asked.
He began to walk so that she almost missed his answer. “An amputation,” he whispered.