3 Quotes by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Me and my dad talk about important things. Things like truth and what it means to be free. Dad says books can help you. Not every book is true, he says, but the more you read, the easier it is to figure out for yourself what is true.

Everybody keeps saying be satisfied with Jesus’s love, and he will give us our daily bread. I keep waiting, but we never get any bread, so I have to go out and do things for myself.

Dad made that up just like he made up the sign over the store. He plays with words until they say what he feels. I guess that makes him a poet.