Inspirational Quote by Jonathan Odell

“You’re soul sick is what you are,” Polly said. “And you can stomp your little footsie all you want to, but you ain’t going…

— Jonathan Odell

“When God wants to punish us, he gives us just ourselves to care for.”

— Jonathan Odell

“It shames me to admit that in the white-defined society in which I was raised, blacks were considered merely background. This was worse than…

— Jonathan Odell

“Calming ain’t curing, is it, girl?”

— Jonathan Odell

“That place I'm talking about ain't nothing but a bloody slit in this world of His. But everybody wants to rule over it. It…

— Jonathan Odell

“When I look up, there are women as far as I can see, standing in the river one behind the other, generations going back…

— Jonathan Odell

“Sometimes, when you look at a person, all you see is the tangle and you miss the weave.”

— Jonathan Odell

“A flapping tongue puts out the light of wisdom."~Polly Shine”

— Jonathan Odell

“Granada had never been on the water before and she marveled at how the creek was a living thing with a will of its…

— Jonathan Odell

“Just remember this, girl, the water you hate is the water that’s going to drown you.”

— Jonathan Odell

“Look up, Granada. Look to your people. We as beautiful and as plentiful as them stars knitted together in heaven. We just forgot. Somebody’s…

— Jonathan Odell

“Sometiimes when you look at a person all you see is the tangle and you miss the weave”

— Jonathan Odell