Shannon

“Having God is having someone to rage against,” she said over coffee. “Where else will I go with that? God is strong enough to take it, like a strong parent. My railing is not only against God, but also against man. Where was God? Where was man?”
― R.D. Rosen, Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors

“there because of her brilliance but only tolerated because it was clear she was one, too, on whom true Ladyhood would never be conferred.”
― Alice Walker, Meridian

“Spanish moss draggled bloody to the ground; amen corners creaked with grief; and the thrill of being able, once again, to endure unendurable loss produced so profound an ecstasy in mourners that they strutted, without noticing their feet, along the thin backs of benches: their piercing shouts of anguish and joy never interrupted by an inglorious fall.”
― Alice Walker, Meridian

“She did not see why anyone should worry about her soul, even the people she marched with. “When it gives me trouble,” she’d sneer, “I’ll call y’all.”
― Alice Walker, Meridian