“I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex instead of poor Eve's. Trust me, my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I who was thrown in infancy upon the world like a wreck upon the waters have learned, as well to struggle with the elements as any male child of Adam.” IfsWorldWayGivingMindWellsChildrenMadeSometimesSexWaterPoorStruggleHabitWalkingElementsIndependentMalesDareBelovedThrownAdamTrust MeWrecksInfancyBeloved Friends Author:Frances Wright
“Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of God.” SoulJesusWaterShameBelovedRepelling Author:Andrew Comiskey
“My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.” MotherFatherWaterNaturalBelovedCompanionOld FriendsOffspringMother And FatherBeloved Mother Book:Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir Source: Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir
“Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die before us all, a people who were the heart of our country and lifeblood of our culture. After rising water, winds and abandonment, after our failure and neglect, comes this symphony of utterance from the ruins: many-voiced, poignant, sorrowful and fierce. This is poetry taking the full measure of its task.” PeopleHeartCountryDiesCultureLeftWaterCitiesBloodWindTasksOur CountryRuinsBelovedRisingNeglectFiercePerilAbandonmentSymphonyUtterancePoignantChroniclesSorrowfulImpassioned Author:Carolyn Forche