Because we must let the whites be the ones who name the trouble.” “And why is that?” I asked. February said, “Because they need to know everything be… - Percival Everett

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

"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston."
"BIPDIP?"
"Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."

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.