“Wishing He I served were black, Thinking then it would not lack Precedent of pain to guide it, Let who would or might deride it, Surely then this flesh would know Yours had borne a kindred woe. Lord I fashion dark gods too, Daring even to give you Dark despairing features where, Crowned with dark […]
“For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift and have shared in the Holy Spirit and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come and then have fallen away, since on their own […]
“I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.” ~Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, wrote these words in a letter to the poet Countee Cullen. But, much like Paul’s letters […]