Percival Everett Quotes

Religion is just a controlling tool they employ and adhere to when convenient.

The children said together, “And the better they feel, the safer we are.” “February, translate that.” “Da mo’ betta dey feels, da mo’ safer we be.” “Nice.

There might be some higher power, children, but it’s not their white God. However, the more you talk about God and Jesus and heaven and hell, the better they feel.” The children said together, “And the better they feel, the safer we are.

I thought you were going to say I was dead,' I said.

'I just couldn't kill you off,' the boy said.

'Thank you, Huck.

How strange a world, how strange an existence, that one’s equal must argue for one’s equality, that one’s equal must hold a station that allows airing of that argument, that one cannot make that argument for oneself, that premises of said argument must be vetted by those equals who do not agree.

Linda Mallory was the postmodern fuck. She was self conscious to the point of distraction, counted her orgasms and felt none of them. She worried about how she looked while making love, about how her expression changed when she started to come, whether she was too tight, too loose, too dry, too wet, too loud, to quiet and she found need to express these concerns during the course of the event.

If you don’t want a secret, don’t accept it.

A reiteration of the obvious is never wasted on the oblivious.

It would of course be a shame to get too old. There’s no virtue in living too long. Living shouldn’t become a habit.

I suspected at that moment that I would not die, but it was unclear whether I would be pleased about that fact.

Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave.

"What a fuckin' mess. A goddamn clusterfuck".
"Chief, is clusterfuck one word or two?" Jethro asked.
"What?"
"Never mind".
"Get back to the goddamn station".
"Yessir".

And though I missed my lover, I was not sad. I was satisfied. I was different.

To fight in a war,' he said. 'Can you imagine?'

'Would that mean facing death every day and doing what other people tell you to do?' I asked.

'I reckon.'

'Yes, Huck. I can imagine.

I was just lucky enough to find a truck with the black-power flag already on it.