Caleb Logan

“But some fire don’t go out, they go quiet under the ash, waiting for one little dry stick to feed. So the white man sleep with one eye open, waiting for the fire next time. That fire coming.”
― Marlon James, The Book of Night Women

“I began to run across Lenox Avenue, toward Adam Clayton Powell, and was almost hit by a speeding cab. The driver screeched to a halt and rolled down his window. He grinned and extended his hand. “We did it!” he said, “I don’t know how, but we did it!”
― Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things: Essays

“How on earth did this happen to the reader in chief? What became of literature’s vaunted power to inspire empathy? (A power that we simultaneously disavow and perpetually cite.)”
― Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things: Essays

“Lilith have a quilt on her back, but there be a bigger quilt, a patchwork of negro bones that reach from the Africa to the West Indies.”
― Marlon James, The Book of Night Women