Pippa GSD

“An informed public depends upon literacy and language: its good use, conception, comprehension and incorruptibility.”
― Barbara Chase-Riboud, I Always Knew: A Memoir

“The twins had always seemed both blessed and cursed; they'd inherited, from their mother, the legacy of an entire town, and from their father, a legacy hollowed by loss. Four Vignes boys, all dead by thirty. The eldest collapsed in a chain gang from heatstroke; the second gassed in a Belgian trench; the third stabbed in a bar fight; and the youngest, Leon Vignes, lynched twice, the first time at home while his twin girls watched through a crack in the closet door, hands clamped over each other's mouths until their palms were misted with spit.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Your father lies beneath a stone,' old Aedwen mumbles, dozing at her wheel, and Godric thinks how it's a stone as well they're all beneath. The stone is need and hurt and gall and tongue-tied longing, for that's the stone that kinship always bears, yet the loss of it would press more grievous still.”
― Frederick Buechner, Godric

“By the March on Washington, we Negroes have shown a remarkable unity. And the opposition can certainly see their strength and determination. This scares and frustrates them because they see also their ultimate defeat. When people see defeat coming it makes them mad, frustrated and desperate. The result is nastiness, violence and brutality to the last degree. Now, everyone is so aware of the problem, there is no escaping it anywhere. People resent this. They resent having to think about something that never concerned them before, which really concerned only us. [1963]”
― Barbara Chase-Riboud, I Always Knew: A Memoir