Chante Frances

“You too, Caesar?”
― Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”
― Robin Waterfield, Republic

“I knew the houses were to be searched; and I expected it would be done by country bullies and the poor whites. I expected I knew nothing annoyed them so much as to see colored people living in comfort and respectability; so I made arrangements for them with especial care....

It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance to exercise a little brief authority, and show their subserviency to the slaveholders; not reflecting that the power which trampled on the colored people also kept themselves in poverty, ignorance, and moral degradation.”
― Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72