These white men scared me. They scared me because they weren’t invested in my being afraid of them. - Percival Everett

saw the surface of her, merely the outer shell, and realized that she was mere surface all the way to her core.

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.

I am a sign. I am your future. I am James.