Their lives had been an interminable loop of repeated gestures; now their existences were winnowed to this discrete and eternal moment.
Take it out on each other if you cannot take it out on the ones who deserve it.
Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the answer. The plague had a knack for narrative closure.
Keep on the path and you will not see the ruined people, so do not stray from the path.
In death the negro became a human being. Only then was he the white man’s equal.
IF THEY THINK those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise.
Here’s one delusion: that we can escape slavery. We can’t. Its scars will never fade.
He imagined a town called A. Around the communal fire they’re shaping arrowheads and carving tributes o the god of the hunt. One day some guys with spears come over the ridge, perform all kinds of mea...
Georgina hailed from Delaware and had that vexing way of Delaware ladies, delighting in puzzles.
Cora blamed the people who wrote it down. People always got things wrong, on purpose as much as by accident.
But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it...The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the F...
At a certain point he learned the smarter play was to avoid the things that brought you low.
Venturing now or after nightfall. Cora thought better
The reminder that she is only a human being for a tiny moment across the eternity of her servitude.
It means what it say, Ethel said. It means that a Hebrew may not enslave a Hebrew. But the sons of Ham are not of that tribe. The were cursed, with black skin and tails. Where the Scripture condemns s...
Favored on her visits. Up close, it was plain
You go on about reasons, Cora said, call things by other names, as if it changes what they are. But that doesn't make them true. ....but we have all been branded, even if you can't see it - inside, if...
You go on about reasons, Cora said, call things by other names, as if it changes what they are. But that doesn't make them true. ....It's true though, your complaint. We come up with all sorts of fan...
Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel not so terrible about my various emotional issues.
Well, imagine you are alone in a room. The lights are down low, you’ve got some scented candles going. Soothing New Age tunes, nothing too druid-chanty, seep out of the hi-fi to gently massage your ce...