If you want to see what this nation is all about, I always say, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you'll find the true face of America.' He slapped the wall of the box...
I was a skinny guy, but I was morbidly obese with doom.
How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured.
His legs remembered the correct position for squatting down with toys. He played. He fit the round male studs into the round female grooves. He got some thinking done as he hunkered down on his fallen...
Her price fluctuated. When you are sold that many times, the world is teaching you to pay attention. She learned to quickly adjust to the new plantations, sorting the nigger breakers from the merely c...
He told himself: Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it.
He stopped hooking up with other people once he realized the first thing he did was calculate whether or not he could outrun them.
He possessed a strange facility for the mandatory.
Fear drove these people, even more than cotton money. The shadow of the black hand that will return what has been given.
EVER since she saw a woodcut of a missionary surrounded by jungle natives, Ethel thought it would be spiritually fulfilling to serve the Lord in dark Africa, delivering savages to the light.
Dressed, she’s in front of the mirror. Armed. She puts her face on. In her case, not a matter of cosmetics, but will. How to make such a sad face hard? It took practice. Not in front of a mirror or in...
All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.
A free black walks different than a slave, he said. White people recognize it immediately, even if they don’t know it. Walks different, talks different, carries himself different. It’s in the bones.
It was time to get out of what Coach called small-stack mentality. I no longer had to play like I was trying to escape the space station before it self-destructed, as the chirpy computer voice counted...
Liquid fire was the very blood of the earth. It was his mission to upset, mash, and draw out the metal into the useful things that made society operate: nails, horseshoes, plows, knives, guns. Chains....
Them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.
The patrollers were the law: white, crooked, and merciless. Drawn from the lowest and most vicious segment, too witless to even become overseers.
Favored on her visits. Up close, it was plain
You can argue for hours about the Apollonian and the Dionysian, but the dark wins every time so fuck the Beatles, just fuck 'em, perspective-wise.
Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway? Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with trees up close but from outside, fro...