Quilt of Souls Quotes

“Chile, Grandma never wants you to look at the bad in folks and go backward. I wants you to look at the good in them and go forward. If you jus' look at the bad, you gone find 'xactly what you lookin' for. Even the worst folks got a speck of good; you jus' got to find it.”
― Phyllis Biffle Elmore, Quilt of Souls: A Memoir

“It don' make no difference who you is and what your color; when you hurt, everybody cry wet.”
― Phyllis Biffle Elmore, Quilt of Souls: A Memoir

“When I asked Grandma about it she told me in her own way . . .she wanted me to know that each time I looked at my quilt it would remind me to be compassionate with other and identify with their struggles. I remember her exact words, same ones she repeated so many times: "Chile, Grandma never wants you to look at the bad in folks and go backwards. I wants you to look at the good in them and go forward. If you jest look at the bad you gonna fine zactly what you lookin' for. Even the worse folks got a speck of good, you jest gotta fine it.”
― Phyllis Biffle Elmore, Quilt of Souls: A Memoir