Steven

“There are things you can’t back down on, things you gotta take a stand on. But it’s up to you to decide what them things are.”
― Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

“We want people to know “God’s love,” but they sure better know if they don’t accept it - in all its beauty - they’ll go straight to hell. His”
― Tim Rymel, Going Gay: My Journey from Evangelical Christian Minister to Self-acceptance, Love, Life, and Meaning

“Where I live is one of the places where suburban stories were first mass-produced. They were stories then for displaced Okies and Arkies, Jews who knew the pain of exclusion, Catholics who thought they did, and anyone white with a steady job.”
― D.J. Waldie, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir

“At my grade school, the Sisters of St. Joseph made me hate Communists, then intolerance, and finally everything that could break the charmed pattern of our lives.”
― D.J. Waldie, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir