Quotes from Lalita Tademy

One thing always sure. Life go on with you or without you, no matter how much you seen.

Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better, Philomene said, what is good enough slips away.

You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that

Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better," Philomene said, "what is good enough slips away.

One thing always sure. Life go on with you or without you, no matter how much you seen.

This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.

There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.

Sometimes good came out of hurt, compensation came out of pain. He gave with one hand, and He took with the other.

Three generations of women out on the front porch, four counting little Emily, trying to put words around a past and a future that could never be explained.

Don't be so eager to judge, Suzette. You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking.

You be surprised what a person got in them to do when the time come.

Fear is a cruel master, but hope die a hard death.

They's a time for sitting still and praying the wind blow over you, and they's a time to rise up and face the storm.

The two women worked easily together, but I soon sensed that, though Belle was in charge of the kitchen, Mama Mae was in charge of Belle.

Some men good providers, got a way with the soil or a trade. Some men been given a singing voice take you to glory, or magic in they bodies to move in dance and make you feel alive. Some men so pretty you gaze on them with hunger, or so smooth they get hold of words and make you believe

any nonsense come out they mouth. Some got the gift to make you laugh out loud, and others preach strong and spread the word of God.

I am the rock in your garden, Emily, and you are the bloom in mine. Count on me.

Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better," Philomene said, "what is good enough slips away.

The women's way was more effective. They might be ignored, abused, or dominated, but in the end the women were more practical, keeping their eye on whatever prize was within their grasp.

She was surrounded by those who thought they offered her the comfort of an outreached palm, unaware that they delivered a fist.

Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.

Opposing forces close rank, black versus white, Republican versus Democrat, plantation riverbed people versus hill people.

We need education, not bullets. That the only way we win. Not all these white men bad. We got to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. That the only way progress last.