“Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots”

“Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

Dolly Parton (1946) American singer-songwriter and actress

“Storms make oaks take deeper root.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

“I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

“Death in your eyes, Earthman. Nothing in your mind but murder. Can that brain of yours comprehend nothing but battle? Is there no curiosity there?…Let me look deeper — if there are depths. Your death will be — useful and, in a way, pleasant. Otherwise — well, the black beasts hunger. And flesh must feed them, as a sweeter drink feeds me…”

C. L. Moore (1911–1987) American author

“I once saw some magician bloke turn a carton of orange juice into orange juice, beer, milk, coke and ginger ale. That makes him five times better than Jesus or something.”

Ben Croshaw (1983) English video game journalist

“That's the reason I always say about music, the blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. Without the roots, you have no fruits so it's better keeping the roots alive because it means better fruits from now on.”

Willie Dixon (1915–1992) American blues musician

“We are the fed up grass roots movement of goose flesh, hell bent on living this one life by the way we feel our spines, saying what we mean, refusing to allow the few to preach to the many when it is the many who need to be hearing eachother.”

Buddy Wakefield (1974) American poet