Elyssa Pinkard

“If enough of them kill you, they’re innocent.”
― Percival Everett, James

“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them,”
― Percival Everett, James

“With my pencil, I wrote myself into being.”
― Percival Everett, James

“America has a way of dancing with its own delusion.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story