Steve

“complete; the part of me that kept leading me to think of new avenues of research that, even as I thought of them, I felt it was crucial to head down. It wasn’t something about which, I had learned the hard way, I had a choice; in reality I had no choice at all. In my defense: while I am aware that there is no Truth, no objective truth, no single truth, no truth simple or unsimple, either; no verity, eternal or otherwise; no Truth about anything, there are Facts, objective facts, discernible and verifiable. And the more facts you accumulate, the closer you come to whatever truth there is. And finding facts—through reading documents or through interviewing and re-interviewing—can’t be rushed; it takes time. Truth takes time. But that’s a logical way of justifying”
― Robert A. Caro, Working

“These groups learned a painful lesson that many scholars have yet to learn; slavery and the plantation are not an anathema to capitalism but are pillars of it.”
― Clyde Woods, Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta

“The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.”
― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

“Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass