In “Linden Hills,” by Gloria Naylor, a man gives up all he owns to create a housing area. The dedication page was quite stricking to me:
“Grandma Tilson, I’m afraid of hell. Ain’t nothing to fear, there’s hell on earth. I mean the real hell where you can go when you die. You ain’t gotta die to go to the real hell. No? Uh uh, you just gotta sell that silver mirror God propped in your soul. Sell it to who—the devil? Naw, just to the highest bidder, child. The highest bidder.”
This page, alone, shows the importance of finding one’s true self whether it be through nature or through religion because if you don’t, someone else will find you and take everything you have away from you.
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