John Pritchard > Quotes

“though there is no question, as it turns out, that there can be a great deal of difference between belief and truth; yet, given a choice, either will do at two in the morning.”
― John Pritchard, Junior Ray

“All of that is far beyond my ability to understand it, though I have no trouble whatsoever in believing it. After all, if understanding were essential to belief, more people would fish on Sunday.”
― John Pritchard, Junior Ray

“I shall know my home by its indelible mark upon my longing, for it is the longing that is the plate on which the image is etched in distant light, where there are no angels, only the angelic.”
― John Pritchard, Junior Ray

“but I do believe one ought to recognize the irreversible nature of reality, particularly if one wants to avoid it.”
― John Pritchard, Junior Ray

“Mississippi used to be able to do whatever it wanted to do, until the United States found out about it. And now that Mississippi has become part of the United States, things ain’t the same. Well, it’s become partially part of it, anyway. Which is sayin’ a lot, because, when I was a boy, wuddn none of it in America.”
― John Pritchard, Junior Ray

“but you can’t ever be sure about a white man, and if you’ve got one that believes in virgin births, risin’ from the dead, and God punishin’ two nekkid people for wantn an education, you need to watch his ass ever’ minute of the day.”
― John Pritchard, The Yazoo Blues

“If Moses had come through Meffis on his way to the fukkin Promised Land, them Israelites woulda been sayin’ stuff like, “Screw a buncha manna, muthafukka. Han’ me a ’cue!”
― John Pritchard, Junior Ray