A review by pagesofpins
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone

4.0

"It probably has something to do with the nature of life itself. It forces you, in any extremity, any extreme, to discover what you really live by, whereas most Americans have been for so long, so safe and so sleepy, that they don’t any longer have any real sense of what they live by. I think they really think it may be Coca-Cola." -James Baldwin

"Why don't you pray to live, and ask to be freed? The God you serve is the God of Paul and Silas, who opened the prison gates, and if you have the all the faith you say you have, you ought to believe he'll open your prison doors too." - Ida B. Wells