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1 " You don’ have to know how or why faith work—you jus’ got to make sure you find some when you feelin’ lost. "
― Laila Ibrahim , Mustard Seed (Freedman/Johnson, #2)
2 " An ugly truth is preferable to a beautiful lie. "
3 " Getting you to lose your hope the biggest weapon they gots. So our best weapon is to hold on to hope, however we can. "
4 " We don’ get to pick how big our good gets to be, but each of us picks if we gonna do some good right where we are. "
5 " If enough people put their drop of water in the same place, then we can make a flower bloom . . . right in the middle of the desert.” Jordan sighed. She wanted "
6 " Mama said, “Ain’t no pain as awful as the one that come from bein’ away from your own chil’. "
7 " just had to, no matter how scared I was.” Mama went on. “An’ those people, the ones we never met and ain’t ever gonna meet, who were called by God to make somethin’ that ain’ ever been before—a college for everyone that let a Negro woman learn. That’ a miracle, baby. A miracle that blessed yo’ life!” A huge chill swept through Jordan at the truth of her mother’s words. “The Sower "
8 " You a sower today, baby. You cast seeds of knowledge to those chil’ren. You ain’t gonna know how or where or if they gonna blossom, but you did God’s work today—you sowed some seeds. "
9 " If enough people put their drop of water in the same place, then we can make a flower bloom . . . right in the middle of the desert. "
10 " All that’s best in me came from you, "
11 " I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, “Move from here to there,” and it would move. Matthew 17:20 "
12 " It a little somethin’, but it gonna matter to that one. We don’ get to pick how big our good gets to be, but each of us picks if we gonna do some good right where we are. "
13 " Pride in their race’s history and instruction in morality would be equally as important in lifting up these children as mathematics and reading. "
14 " Hopefully we all just gonna be people soon. "
15 " They can vote, but people who engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States can’t hold office at the state or federal level, and "
16 " God don’ like ugly, even when it deserved. God love mercy. "
17 " You gonna feel better for one moment if’n you hurts him right now. But you gonna sleep better next year, and all the years to come, if’n you jus’ walk away. "
18 " all, ‘we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "
19 " These folks are our kith, the people we are connected to because of our choices. Somewhere between friends and family. "
20 " will not know which seeds will take root and flourish, but the sowing itself is an act of faith. In the midst of so much ongoing ugliness, these are the faces of hope. "
