Ron Hall Quotes

• I ran out of strong.

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• Sometimes to touch us, God touches someone that’s close to us. This is what opens our eyes to the fact there is a higher power than ourselves, whether we call it God or not.

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• You stood up with courage and faced me when I was dangerous, and it changed my life. You loved me for who I was on the inside, the person God meant for me to be, the one that had just gotten lost for a while on some ugly roads in life.

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• You was the onlyest person that looked past my skin and past my meanness and saw that there was somebody on the inside worth savin…We all has more in common than we think.

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• Good medicine always tastes bad.

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• Suddenly his eyes gentled and he spoke more softly than before: ‘But if you is lookin for a REAL friend, then I’ll be one. Forever.

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•  ‘So, Mr. Ron, it occurred to me: If you is fishin for a friend you just gon’ catch and release, then I ain’t got no desire to be your friend.’I returned Denver’s gaze with what I hoped was a receptive expression and hung on.

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• I nodded, afraid to speak, afraid to offend. Denver looked away, searching the blue autumn sky, then locked onto me again with that drill-bit start.

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•  Then we eat what we catch…in other words, we use it to SUSTAIN us. So it really bothers me that white folks would go to all the trouble to catch a fish, when when they done caught it, just throw it back in the water. He paused again, and the silence between us stretched a full minute. Then: ‘Did you hear what I said?’

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• ‘That really bothers me’, Denver went on. ‘I just can’t figure it out. ‘Cause when colored folks go fishin, we really proud of what we catch, and we take it and show it off to everybody that’ll look.

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• I heard that when white folks go fishin they do somethin called ‘catch and release.’ Catch and release? I nodded solemnly, suddenly nervous and curious at the same time.

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• When you is precious to God, you become important to Satan.

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• Most people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can also take you over and change your life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be.

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• But sometimes we has to be thankful for the things that hurt us,’ I said, ’cause sometimes God does things that hurts us but they help somebody else.

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• Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.

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• To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.

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• Being friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together, you fight together; you die together.

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Ron Hall (57)

Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Volunteer

About

Denver was born in rural Louisiana in January 1937, and after several tragic events went to live on a plantation in Red River Parish with his Uncle James and Aunt Ethel, who were share croppers. Sometime around 1960, he hopped a freight train and began a life as a homeless drifter until 1966 when a judge awarded him a 10 year contract for hard labor at the Louisiana State School of Fools, aka, Angola Prison!

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