Katey

“That's how the European tribes operate, she said. If they can’t control it, they destroy it.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“Things don’t end, after all. They only change, and you keep changing with them.”
― M.R. Carey, The Boy on the Bridge

“Since the white cops ventured over only when they needed a Negro to conveniently arrest for some crime, the residents had no protection from pickpockets and thieves and burglars, scofflaws and roughnecks, moonshiners and drunks and rapists.”
― Thomas Mullen, Darktown

“Horace’s mother had warned him about white people, that he should never speak to them unless they spoke first, and that if he did, he needed to say “sir” and “ma’am” and not be rude but to get away as quickly as he could beforethey did something terrible. She had refused to say what it was people like this did that was so awful. Horace figured they ate colored people, or at least colored children.”
― Thomas Mullen, Darktown