Frihet var något som förändrades när man såg på den, liksom en skog är tät av träd på nära håll, men utifrån, från den tomma ängen, ser man dess sanna gränser. Att vara fri hade inget att göra med boj...
Even if the adults were free of the shackles that had held them fast, bondage had stolen too much time. Only the children could take full advantage of their dreaming. If white men let them.
But if he didn’t read, he was a slave.
America was a ghost in the darkness,
In for the evening. The town rose into view, the biggest Cora had seen since North Carolina, if not as long established. The long main street, with its two banks and the loud row of taverns, was enoug...
A new wave of immigrants would replace the Irish, fleeing a different but no less abject country, the process starting anew. The engine huffed and groaned and kept running. They had merely switched th...
You’re supposed to pass on something useful to your children.
Women and animals, you only have to break them in once, he said. They stay broke. All
Two white men in two days had their hands around her. Was this a condition of her freedom? Caesar
Things are pretty much status quo with the sexual-tension friend.
They were up past dawn, crashed, were granted absolution in its secular manifestation of late checkout.
The worst sort of scoundrels took up the chase. Drunkards, incorrigibles, poor whites who didn’t even own shoes delighted in this opportunity to scourge the colored population.
The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day. It uses you up until you only dream of death. Mabel
The publicity of the present day causes that no sooner is a discovery or an invention made than it is already improved upon and surpassed by competing efforts.
The masks had been made in Korea, delivering back to the West the faces they had given the rest of the globe: presidents, screen stars, and mass murderers. The rubber filament inevitably snapped from...
That is how the European tribes operate, she said. If they can’t control it, they destroy it. If
Take it out on each other if you cannot take it out on the ones who deserve
Stubborn breaks when it don’t bend, and his family had spent too much time with the kindly white folks in the north. Kindly in that they didn’t see fit to kill you fast. One thing about the south, it...
She didn’t agree with the popular arguments for slavery but saw it as a necessary evil given the obvious intellectual deficiencies of the African tribe. To free them from bondage all at once would be...
Poetry and prayer put ideas in people’s heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world. After