Michael Edwin Q. > Quotes

“This healed ear was never the same. It hears what no others can. It hears the truth and only the truth. Whatever words it hears, even the lies of men, it knows only the truth.”
― Michael Edwin Q., Twilight Zone for Christians

“emotions and clear thinking don’t always go together. I would act with more honor than my opponents from that day forward.”
― Michael Edwin Q., Born a Colored Girl

“as well as Biblically. First, the Negro’s black skin is not the mark of Cain as so many, even some preachers, claim. If that were true, that would make the Negro our distant cousin, distant but still part of the same family. They are not part of the human race, distant or otherwise. Don’t”
― Michael Edwin Q., Pappy Moses' Peanut Plantation

“Life ain’t easy. Even when it’s the best it can be it ain’t easy. And you never know which way it will go. Don’t ever be fooled that when things are bad, it can’t get much worse, `cause it can, just as much as it can get better. As well, don’t ever forget that when things are good, they can get better.”
― Michael Edwin Q., Born a Colored Girl

“When the music changes, so does the dance.”
― Michael Edwin Q., THE MAAFA

“Life can be painful at times, but it will never hurt you if you never live it.”
― Michael Edwin Q., Thicker Than Water

“*MY LITTLE COLORED CHILD was a well-known lullaby sung by slave families in the 1800’s. Sadly, it was based on the folklore told by plantation white women to black slave children that the stork delivered white babies to the plantation; where as black babies were hatched from a buzzard’s egg.”
― Michael Edwin Q., Tame the Savage Heart

“We were slaves. The lives we lived were not our own, the work we did was not for our benefit.”
― Michael Edwin Q., Tame the Savage Heart