But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door.
Before I came back to North Carolina, I’d never seen a mob rip a man limb from limb, Martin said. See that, you stop saying what folks will do and what they won’t. True,
And what else but a being cursed with the burden of free will would wear a poncho.
All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.
All men are created equal, unless we decide that you are not a man.
The full moon, the white beacon that so often agitated the slave with a mind to run.
The Lieutenant’s theory of the barricades. Yes, they were the only vessel strong enough to contain our faith. But then there are the personal barricades, Mark Spitz thought. Since the first person met...
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...
Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker.
Where the goblin world and its assaults were banished and there was nothing but possibility
When trafficking in cadavers, it helped to be immune to sentimentality.
Verkligheten var en föränderlig skyltning i ett butiksfönster, manipulerad av händer när man inte såg, lockande och ständigt utom räckhåll.
Two white men in two days had their hands around her. Was this a condition of her freedom? Caesar
Try to forget bit by bit, it will be easier on you. Leave it behind. Then the plane tilts in its escape and over the gray wing the city explodes into view with all its miles and spires and inscrutable...
There was no recourse, were no laws but the ones rewritten every day.
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 only way to know how long you are lost in the darkness is to be saved from it.
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...
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...