Oz Osborn

“Like justice, it existed in theory.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“A jail within a jail. In those long hours, he struggled over Reverend King's equation. "Throw us in jail and we will love you ... But be assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win our freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and your conscience that we will win you in the process and our victory will be a double victory." No he could not make that leap to love. He understood neither the impulse of the proposition nor the will to execute it.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“The class focused on US history since the Civil War, but at every opportunity Mr. Hill guided them to the present, linking what had happened a hundred years ago to their current lives. They’d set off down one road at the beginning of class and it always led back to their doorsteps. Mr.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch? One learned to focus one’s attention.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys