CNN, okay? They came at night and beat down the doors. All
When you drive down Cemetery Road, the angel appears to be looking directly at you. Yet once you pass the monument and look back over your shoulder, the angel is still looking at you. Thus the appella...
The system is broken! And one of the reasons it’s broken down here is that it’s largely run by and for black people. They simply do not place a high cultural value on education, and I’m not going to p...
Even chitlins smell good to a starving man.
Frost’s The Death of the Hired Man ran through his overheated brain: Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
The stillest thing in the world is the corpse of someone you loved. A hunk of cold granite seems more alive than a dead human being. You don't expect a stone to move. A person robbed of all motion and...
I don’t say it was hard, because everybody got it hard, some way.
Because the beautiful way he speaks in public is just another cloak he wears to hide what lies beneath his skin,
I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that a tragic epic lay behind it.
If I cannot change what I had for lunch yesterday, I certainly cannot unmake a marriage, erase the betrayal of a friend, or board a ship that left port twenty years ago.
Hair. He’s bald now. But he still looks like he could ride a bull ragged. I jump at the sound of the garage door. Mom gives me a little wave, then crosses the kitchen as silently as if she were floati...
I’ve sometimes wondered whether human beings are like the universe itself, where 95 percent of what surrounds us is dark matter, and cannot be seen. The only way black holes can be detected is by the...
Kaiser and Lenz are staring at each other like hunters who have walked into a thicket after a lion and found a unicorn.
We judge and punish based on facts, but facts are not truth. Facts are like a buried skeleton uncovered long after death. Truth is fluid. Truth is alive. To know the truth requires understanding, the...
Marrying someone you don’t love is a sin. Because it sends both of you to hell. It destroys the other person first, but in the end it gets you, too. The magnitude of what you’ve done, the damage you’v...
We're all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to hurt us.
When a parent dies, your center of gravity is altered. Even if you lived apart from them—even if you walled yourself off from all contact—you are irrevocably lessened by their passing. Death, like gra...
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they’re more certain they are their own.
Oh. Does Mississippi have some kind of grave-desecration statute? I know they differ from state to state. Mississippi does, thank God. Anybody who comes across human remains in this state must report...
Posts oriented into a Woodhenge, a huge circle for astronomical observations. Like Stonehenge? Exactly like that. Or Cahokia, a similar site up in Illinois.
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