Thea Bowman Quotes

I don't try to make sense of suffering. I try to make sense of life...I try each day to see God's will...I console myself with the old Negro spiritual, 'Sooner will be done the troubles of this world. I'm going home to live with God.

Never meet your idols, Thea remembered Mel saying. They rarely live up to your image of them.

Thea had never been attracted to people in that sense. There was a time in middle school when she’d wondered if something was wrong with her, if part of her heart was faulty for not lusting after this person or that, for failing to crush on someone from afar like her peers.