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“Rebellion even in its smallest forms can eventually birth great change. With change comes hope.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“All have the potential to discover peace, turn it into something everlasting. But humans carry their sorrow and disappointment, their trials and tragedies. They drag them with them, ugly, battered luggage, opened and rummaged through for the sheer purpose of torturing themselves with unfortunate past actions.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“Invisible lines dissected black lives from white ones, and these lines were intentional and political and created with clear meaning. The unspoken rules and written laws define these boundaries.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“These are people to whom the indifference of the world felt many times over is too much to bear. Brown bodies will arrive through my doors, seeking an impossible solution to injustices not provided by the nation at large. But the relief they feel need not be complete, just enough so that they can return to their normal lives with the strength to deal with the indignities large and small suffered because of skin color.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“Shouting draws attention and listening ears. We’re a perfect family and we can’t have someone in the congregation witnessing a fight, people talk, rumors swirl. It’s best to leave our dysfunction in the home and out of the church.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“But more things than love bind people together, secrets and lies make just as hearty a bond as love.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“We’re all just a collection of scars, you know.â€� “What are you talking about, Rue?â€� “The mistakes our parents make, the mistakes we make. We’re as much marked by the things we don’t do as the things we accomplish.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“try to spare people my pain. It’s the polite thing to do. I’m good at doing the polite thing. Mom taught me very well.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“elders, always figure you need a lesson about struggle because they had so much of it in their lives. Maybe they think it makes us stronger. So they’ll teach, but they won’t coddle. They’ll oversee, but they won’t hover.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“Just be careful. Our strengths can be our weaknesses, too.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“Our history can shape the future, but it doesn't define it. Our present is anchored by those around us, those we allow in our lives and those who, by default or shared blood, walk a road with us. What we choose to do with that companionship is up to us.
Past, present and future communing together, the joining of this holy trinity. Who humans are, and what the world is, live in these three things.
Remember this, always.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“Everything you want to say, even when you’re not talking, is on your face.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“Our history can shape the future, but it doesn’t define it. Our present is anchored by those around us, those we allow in our lives and those who, by default or shared blood, walk a road with us. What we choose to do with that companionship is up to us. Past, present”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“Decades, some assassinations and a black president later, those lines are not erased but redrawn.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“Be who you want to be as long as your potential doesn’t eclipse mine. Know your place. Stay in your place. As a result, much of our majesty and power remained invisible to us—lost, entombed, obscured, hidden among the rubble of the past; in demolished buildings and omitted paragraphs in history books. The city Chicago was color-blind; people, however, were and are another”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“There’s no ointment or prayer that can heal mean. No”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“smiles this smile, invasive and knowing, though she means it to be warm and kind.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“I’m more of the James Baldwin school: “I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“Sweetie, there are many things we learn in this world," she says. "Those things can make you hard, but you have a choice to not let it. You don't be the rock. you be the river. You hear me?”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“Rebellion even in its smallest forms can eventually birth great change.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“There’s no ointment or prayer that can heal mean. No one to deliver me like the fairy tales in storybooks or churches. We look to others to save us and we must save ourselves.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“And Mom believed God would change Lebanon, but some people can’t be saved. You can’t pray away evil. You can’t ignore its destruction. But Mom certainly tried all of that, and now I’m here and the one person who deserved a bullet more than anyone I know is here with me.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“thanked Sara. She bred me to this and for this. I survived prison because she gifted me pain while Jackson was gifted with love by his parents. Desolation ruled my life and hope ruled his.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“Be who you want to be as long as your potential doesn’t eclipse mine. Know your place. Stay in your place. As a result, much of our majesty and power remained invisible to us—lost, entombed, obscured, hidden among the rubble of the past; in demolished buildings and omitted paragraphs in history books. The city Chicago was color-blind; people, however, were and are another matter.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King