Front door Quote by Elaine Hussey

“Hallelujah that in spite of it all, there is love, there is singing, nature, laughing, mercy.”

— Anne Lamott

“Billie doesn't say much. I think it's because she feels so let down by others that she loses the ability to speak. But when…

— Fanny Britt

“Clara said that Billie Holiday woke up crying. Clara said that if you sing the blues, you know that if you can’t make friends…

— Amy Bloom

“God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who gave her…

— Toni Morrison

“MAMA (Quietly, woman to woman) He finally come into his manhood today, didn’t he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain… RUTH (Biting…

— Lorraine Hansberry

“I'll be singing hymns to the rafters, be praising His goodness so loud they're going to have to turn down the volume in Heaven.”

— Diane Hammond

“Daddy named me Billie Jo. He wanted a boy. Instead, he got a long legged girl with a wide mouth with cheekbones like bicycle…

— Karen Hesse

“because I know too many of her secrets.” “Secrets?” He laughed at this, imagining internecine Claremont Mom drama from which he’d been thankfully excluded.…

— Janelle Brown

“But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the dead branches…

— Ruta Sepetys

“Yo momma so ugly that when she gets up, the sun goes down.”

— Various

“There is nothing better - nothing - than knowing that the risen Christ lives right now in heaven, singing over his people - singing…

— Reggie M. Kidd

“She might be frightened out of her wits and confused as hell, but she was a Southern girl, born and bred. Mama would fly…

— Tonya Burrows