I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol, but my language, the fact that I d… - Percival Everett

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I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol, but my language, the fact that I didn’t conform to his expectations, that I could read, that had so disturbed and frightened him.