Nilsa Ridges

“Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.”
― Salman Rushdie, Shame

“I have to keep reminding myself that almost everybody is always lying.”
― Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain