Caleb Logan

“The problem with a book is that you never know what it’s planning to do to you until you’re too far into it. I really need to take a shower.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“What is beautiful is whatever will keep weekend lake parties safe from strange darker people.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

“The joke was not on enslaved black women of yesteryear but on the idea that it would take a totalizing system of enslavement to counter the structural violence that beauty does to Jones in her life today.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

“Weeper stare at me hard then laugh. Nothing like a Weeper laugh, it start like a wheeze then somewhere, and you never know where, it explode into the biggest thing in the room. Who teach this little black man that he can laugh so?”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings