“I wonder if it is possible to escape the clinches of despair; or would despair become the hunter and reclaim me as its prisoner.”

“Our passion for fear consumes us and gives birth to the imaginary. Once fear is unleashed, it feeds upon us and rips us apart like a wild animal. Its hold is great, narrow is the escape and treacherous the road. I know of what I speak, for I was once his victim.”

“As I held the family Bible in my hand and I could almost feel the joys and sorrows that connected me to the past.”

“He smiled at me and I felt the tenderness only a daughter could feel.”

“The heavy smell of incense gave me an uneasy feeling as if I had walked into a tomb”

“I am strong as steel and my roots are planted deep in this southern soil. Time may have weathered me, but I will always bend with the wind”

“Daddy-by Nancy B. BrewerWhen I used to say, speak up you are as good as they, You would just smile and say, let them have their way. When in my foolish youth, I so often disobeyed,He would just smile and say, let her have her way. When summer passed and winter overcame. He was not afraid, never once did he say. When in the moonlight his final hour came, He just smiled and said Lord I'll go your way.”