Cha-Cha favored short, earnest prayer, and he often wondered what took others so long., It had something to do with excess supplication, he suspected. He never presented a long list of specific requests to God, had always felt uncomfortable with the presumptuousness of "Ask and you shall receive." This might have been a result of pride, or his own middling ambition, but mostly Cha-Cha's prayers were a series of thank-yous and I'm sorrys.

Everybody else cain't be wrong all the time. Sometimes it's gotta be you.

You're worried about her forgiving you...but you need to be worrying about why you're acting up in the first place.

The truth, when finally revealed, is sticky like wet dough. The majority of it stays in place as one handles it, but pieces break off and adhere, making certain facts seem larger, more portentous, than others.

A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.

You got a child to feed and a life to get on with.

Here is the truth about self-discovery: it is never without cost.

Says you and your family. Sooner or later you’re gonna realize that just cause a Turner thinks a thing is normal doesn’t mean it is. Not at all.

There ain't no haints in Detroit.