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

Heating and cooling it like that will harden the steel,” Easter said. “Metaphor,” I said. “That’s nearly all we have,” Easter said.

White people often spent time admiring their survival of one thing or another. I imagined it was because so often they had no need to survive, but only to live.

gun at me. I pointed my pistol at him. “I am the angel of death, come to offer sweet justice in the night,” I said. “I am a sign. I am your future. I am James.” I pulled back the hammer on my pistol.