“The gospel gives me hope, and hope is not a language the dark voices understand.”
“So give me hope in the darkness that I will see the light.”
“You're a light in the darkness, something to give people hope.”
“Without the darkness, how can we ever hope to understand the light?”
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”
“Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.”