The Coming
Daniel Black
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Perhaps future generations, the beautiful ones unborn, would wonder how we survived it all. What would we say? Or, more probably, what would history say for us? It would not speak truth. Not whole truth. It could not.”
“Among us lived every spirit conceivable. Men who loved women, women who loved men. Women who loved women, men who loved men. These were not choices but life assignments. Everyone had one.”
“When we’d had slaves, we’d purchased people’s labor—not their bodies! We never thought we owned someone’s arms, legs, feet, heart. How was that possible? How much does an arm cost? A leg? Feet? Hands? How”
“We were wonderful, but we were not flawless. We knew excellence because we knew failure. We were human beings.”
“We had been concerned with complex, invisible knowledge, when we should’ve also been searching for God in simple things. Senior”
“Truth was, they died as we died. It made sense. The universe demands life for life.”
“The pain of what happened next lives in our collective memory. It mauls our souls each day. Yet it must be told. Silence guarantees no healing. It promises that the child's life would be forgotten and that its mission might, one day, be thought significant. Silence is the enemy of history, and history is all we have.”
“Our names told us who we were. They told us why we’d been sent. What was expected of us. We were not confused. We were not ashamed. We were not perfect, but we were excellent.”
“Our body parts were the trademark, we believed, of a sacred, majestic people. Now the ugliness of our situation made us begin to loathe the body we’d once loved. It was a gradual occurrence at first, more a thought than a truth, but we knew that once planted, a seed soon reveals all that it bears.”
“We’d all been taught that, in a circle, there is no beginning, no end. Energy flows without ceasing. One can enter and exit without ever disrupting it. Something magical happens when people gather in a circle. Individual identities swirl into a collective self, which wields far more spiritual force than any one person alone. We”
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