“I still loved Granny. It flowed out of my chest. With Granny gone, where would my love go?”

“Now that her spirit had left, Id thought she would feel light. Then I realized it was the spirit that carries the weight of the body and not the other way around.”

“I wish Id paid better attention. I didnt yet think of time as finite. I didnt fully appreciate the stories she told me until I became adult, and by then I had to make do with snippets pasted togeth...”

“Now that her spirit had left, I’d thought she would feel light. Then I realized it was the spirit that carries the weight of the body and not the other way around.”

“I wish I’d paid better attention. I didn’t yet think of time as finite. I didn’t fully appreciate the stories she told me until I became adult, and by then I had to make do with snippets pasted tog...”

“And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.”

“I thought grandmothers had to like you. Its a law or something.”

“I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.”

“The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for tr...”

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”