Then M’Dear Sophie always said, “Find meaning where you’re put, Vee.” So she exhaled deeply and tried to… — Toni Cade Bambara

Got to give it all up, the pain, the hurt, the anger and make room for lovely things to rush in and fill you full.

She would not break her discipline to comfort herself in a shallow way. Would no more break discipline with her Self than she would her covenant with God.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks’ reason for living. Their conversation piece anyway.