"Go Tell it on the Mountain" Quotes
A young man in 1930s Harlem struggles with family, religion, and his own identity.
fiction | 272 pages | Published in 2001
Quotes
People can cry much easier than they can change.
The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated.
One can suffer so much, yet still be kind; one can be so hurt, yet still be gentle.
People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
For nothing is impossible with God.
When you're scared, you're scared, but you still do it.
It is the love of the people that gives us strength.
It was a hard world, a stone world, a world that made him, but it was made by God, and then God broke it.
Happiness was the most deadly of all the deadly sins.
