Clay Cane > Quotes

“The danger of being misled is more than ignorance; it’s political and social vulnerability. A society untethered from truth can be easily controlled”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“Yes, this book will make you uncomfortable, but discomfort is the extravagant price of truth.”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“Don’t let them take what they can’t touch.”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“the attack and ultimate fall of Fort Sumter in April 1861, which sparked the Civil War,18 Lincoln”
― Clay Cane, The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump

“Remembering is an act of brilliant opposition.”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“Nobel Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu said it best. While criticizing the Reagan administration’s “constructive engagement toward the white government” in South Africa, he called their policy “immoral, evil and totally un-Christian.”21”
― Clay Cane, The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump

“For many Black Americans”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“But Josephine? She had something Bess never did, an unshakable belief that she could survive this, and maybe more.”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“The danger of being misled is more than ignorance; it’s political and social vulnerability.”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“A society untethered from truth can be easily controlled, its people divided by lies while the oligarchies consolidate their control.”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“Ain’t being sold again, Emily,” he told her. “Leaving this plantation a dead man.”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“The South”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“I’m not a man who’s ever feared pale foolishness dressed up as power.”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“Without our guidance”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“These false prophets—modern strongmen who wrap themselves in old flags and old lies—will stand again”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“Makes me wonder … maybe you ain’t meant to be free. Maybe you exactly where you belong. Maybe this whole thing called slavery is a choice.”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“The flames cast prancing shadows”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“It was better than anything the ancestors ever whispered, but she wanted more.”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“That was the flaw of this institution, the big lie that had held it together for generations. It was built on the breaking of spirits, on the belief that a person could be stripped down to nothing and reshaped into obedience. But no whip, no chain, no branding iron could turn a soul into property. No master could own what was never meant to be owned.”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“How could you?” she choked out. “You lied. You said we was safe. You said we was family!”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“supported the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, believed Roosevelt’s New Deal enslaved Black people,5 blasted the 1995 Million Man March while comparing the Nation of Islam to the Ku Klux Klan,6 and supported lifting sanctions against South Africa before apartheid had ended.”
― Clay Cane, The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump