Deonna

“Black people are always the punch line of a joke--it's maybe why none of the books we read have Black people in them unless they're slaves.”
― Ryan Douglass, The Taking of Jake Livingston

“It is to me. I'm African American, ma'am. My homeostasis is not built for cold weather. So I feel it even though you guys don't.”
― Ryan Douglass, The Taking of Jake Livingston

“If you think that changes sum'n about all this, then you STUPID, boy! It's been Black folks like you, Jake, since it's been Black folks--you know you sound like a fool. Because when you gone, it's gon' be a whole lot more just like you to be born. And they will know who you were and know that it's okay to live, because you lived before them.”
― Ryan Douglass, The Taking of Jake Livingston