So we learned the dance that cripples the human spirit, step by step by step, we who were white and we who were colored, day by day, hour by hour, ye… - Lillian E. Smith

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives...

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

[The truth] is what actually happens. Not what you want to happen. Not what you're afraid will happen. We make up stories when we want things to happen or are afraid they may happen. And sometimes we do it for fun-or to scare people or make them do our way or to hurt them. And sometimes we do it because it's a pretty story and we tell it just as we fly a kite or send balloons floating.