Quotes about Legacy

What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.

But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house. [...] A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.

People who die bad don't stay in the ground.

I told you again that you were the reason Adam ate the apple and its core. That when he left Eden, he left a rich man. Not only did he have Eve, but he had the taste of the first apple in the world in his mouth for the rest of his life.

Her color is a cross she will always carry.

What a man leaves behind is what a man is.

You know as well as I do that people who die bad don't stay in the ground.

Well, that's the way it was. Nobody counted on Garner dying. Nobody though he could. How 'bout that? Everything rested on Garner being alive. Without his life each of theirs fell to pieces. Now ain't that slavery or what is it?

To the two who gave me life and the one who made me free

The fathers may soar, they may triumph, they may leave, but the children know who they are; they remember, half in glory and half in accusation.

You can't take a life and walk off and leave it. Life is life. Precious. And the dead you kill is yours. They stay with you anyway, in your mind. So it's a better thing, a more better thing to have the bones right there with you wherever you go. That way, it frees up your mind.

Never underestimate your role as a father. Remember, Dads, that your children's view of God will largely be dependent on their view of you.