M.K. South Quotes
It stood calm against the suburban storm raging around it. The thunder screamed across the sky
I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.
You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.
There is no lifeguard on duty. We each swim at our own risk during this short journey." ~ Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue
The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.
Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness.
That’s the thing about living on the earth – we humans can make all sorts of decisions and plans, but at the end of the day, the earth always gets the last word.
In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’t see their face. We don’t see them as people.
There are not so many murders in this township, I think to myself, and not so few policemen, that a killing should be treated like an old woman who has lost her cat.
Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.
The stars were extra bright tonight, and they shone and glimmered as if each one had something it wanted to say.
Cats may have nine lives, but pigs . . . don't . . . give . . . up.
We stood as the ground shifted and we saw the view from belowthrough tiled floors and concrete stairs, our feet burning holes in the foundation while you whispered of dreams.
What about the future?""We'll talk about the future when it gets here.
No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you've got time on your hands and a healthy imagination.
The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.
In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent.
When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today.
North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place.
When you smile from within good things come to you from without. Just breathe, your music will come.
But after dealing with Roy for a while I just wanted to get through the time I’d signed on for, to prove to myself that I couldn’t be beaten by a girly-faced, chicken-boned, racist cat.
I remember in treatment, Mr. Shaw told me that the alcohol and drugs never were my problem. He said the alcohol and drugs were my solution and that was my problem. And he was right.
The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it.
Don't fight the system, mock the system
Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together.
I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.
I had several girlfriends, but nothing lasted. I’d date one for a few months, and then start thinking: This isn’t what I want.
The toughest part about riding a horse is overcoming the urge to eat it.
Sometimes the thing one wants most is the very thing that will get him killed with an axe.
—a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.
