Edith ｡⋆୨୧˚’s Reviews > The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother > Status Update

“They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.
Yet conflict was a part of our lives, written into our very faces, hands, and arms, and to see how contradiction lived and survived in essence, we had to look bo farther than our own mother.” pg 22, chp 4