Robin Landry

“She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God. Some folks didn’t have him to share, I said.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“had an uneasy feeling that we would never see him again.”
― Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

“You telling me God love you, and you ain’t never done nothing for him? I mean, not go to church, sing in the choir, feed the preacher and all like that? But if God love me, Celie, I don’t have to do all that. Unless I want to.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Doctor placed his trust in the future. That way, it might be said that he had more faith than all of us put together. He believed in the green pastures, the beacon on the hill. And I think he died feeling he had found it. Probably he never realized that, to hold it, to savor fully what was nothing but a poor ghost, he must release it soon, keep moving, hurry on,”
― Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters