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Creation is filled with soul-sick folks, colored and white, never knowing where they belong. They tangle everybody else up in their grief.

~ Jonathan Odell

Jonathan Odell Grief Spiritual

That place I'm talking about ain't nothing but a bloody slit in this world of His. But everybody wants to rule over it. It ain't for the white man to rule. Ain't for any man to rule.

~ Jonathan Odell

Jonathan Odell Feminism Reproductive Rights The Healing Vagina

But remember this. When God wants to punish us, he gives us just ourselves to care for.

~ Jonathan Odell

Jonathan Odell Grief Helping Others Loneliness

Sometimes you got to lie on the outside to keep your voice loud on the inside. We don’t owe the master the truth. He owes us. Nothing comes from the master. He is the thief in the night. He steals it all. And every time we have to say ‘yes sir’ and ‘no sir,’ he steals some more. But we can survive it, if we stay loud in here,” she said, throwing a fist hard against her breast.

~ Jonathan Odell

Jonathan Odell Slavery Survival

The biggest thing the white man takes from us ain’t our bodies. He takes our voices, too. He swallows up our yes’s and no’s like biscuits. But one day our yes’s and no’s will be so loud and strong they will lodge in his throat. He will have to spit them out to keep from choking. He will starve. There won’t be nothing left of him except the shadows he casts on the deadest night.

~ Jonathan Odell

Jonathan Odell Slavery
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