Timothy B. Tyson Quotes

If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.

We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.

It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.

It was like watching a community you thought you knew reveal itself as something else.

Some things are worse than death... If a man lives, he must still live with himself.

Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.