It’s a horrible world. White people try to tell us that everything will be just fine when we go to heaven. My question is, Will they be there? If so,… - Percival Everett

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. My chills returned and I thought again

He’s going to get drunk now, not so much because he can, but because we can’t,” I said.

Folks be funny lak dat. Dey takes the lies dey want and throws away the truths dat scares ’em.