Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture.
The buttons of his dark blue uniform allude to an ongoing border dispute with his soft belly.
That’s what you do when you take away someone’s babies—steal their future. Torture them as much as you can when they are on this earth, then take away the hope that one day their people will have it b...
One might think one’s misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality
Named Tom Bird, a half-breed who took a sentimental turn
My father liked his Indian talk about the Great Spirit, Ridgeway said. All these years late, I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build an...
Its terms? Homer watched her as she dressed, like a valet who had waited on her since the cradle. I’m caught, Cora said. You choose to be with him. Homer looked puzzled. He took out his notebook, turn...
You’re supposed to pass on something useful to your children.
You can change the law but you can’t change people and how they treat each other.
Yet when his classmates put their blades to a colored cadaver, they did more for the cause of colored advancement than the most high-minded abolitionist. In death the negro became a human being. Only...
When you talk about this trip, and you will, because it was quite a journey and you witnessed many things, there were ups and downs, sudden reversals of fortune and last-minute escapes, it was really...
When the work was done, and the day's punishments, the night waited as an arena for their true loneliness and despair.
Well, imagine you are alone in a room....Are you the best, most special person in the room right now? Yes. That's the gift of being alone.
There had been no kidnapped boys swabbing the decks and earning pats on the head from white kidnappers.
The white man in the book, Gulliver, roved from peril to peril, each new island a new predicament to solve before he could return home. That was the man’s real trouble, not the savage and uncanny civi...
The future? The future was the clay in their hands.
South Carolina has a much more enlightened attitude toward colored advancement than the rest of the south.
She threw him a bone about the movement: 'Lyndon Johnson's carrying on President Kennedy's civil rights bill. And if that good old boy is doing right, you know things is changing. Be a whole different...
Rap was a natural resource, might as well pay for sunlight or the very breeze or an early-morning car alarm going off. No, I spent my money on music for moping. Perfect for drifting off on the divan w...
Know your value and you know your place in the order. To escape the boundary of the plantation was to escape the fundamental principles of your existence: impossible.