Lynn Vincent

Ron Hall

Denver Moore

Describes how the co-author, a man held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s, suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened to save the former's life. Reprint.

Same Kind of Different As Me

Baylea Fancher

“I know it ain’t none of my business, but does you own somethin that each one of them keys fits?” I glanced at the keys; there were about ten of them. “I suppose,” I replied, not really ever having thought about it. “Are you sure you own them, or does they own you.”

The more I thought about it, the more I became convinced we’d enjoy life a whole lot more if we owned a whole lot less.

Then, truly puzzled, she asked him, "Why are you so happy?"

"I woke up" he replied, eyes twinkling in his haggard face, "and that's reason enough to be happy!”

“Well when Denver heard about Miss Debbie, he told me she had a lot of friends that would be praying for her all day. But he figured she needed someone to pray all night, and he would be the one to do it”

“Just tell em I’m a nobody that’s tryin to tell everybody ‘bout Somebody that can save anybody”

The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or somethin in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless — just workin our way toward home.

Denver said this in the “Conversation with the Authors” section

I hope everybody tries to be successful not for selfish purposes, but to help those who can't help themselves

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