The world demands that you introduce yourself twice, first as you are, and second as you are told to be. - Percival Everett

What can you tell me about Money, Mississippi?” “Well, it’s chock-full of know-nothing peckerwoods stuck in the prewar nineteenth century and living proof that inbreeding does not lead to extinction,” Jim said. “No

Perhaps to protect me from the bright light of God. If there was a God, he or she was no good at its job. Apparently there was just too much to do, listening to the prayers of all those who actually mattered, the faithful, the pious, the deluded, the stupid.

Which would frighten you more? A slave who is crazy or a slave who is sane and sees you clearly?