Liv

“After 'The Color Purple', I became something of a reader. The more I read, the more I saw myself. Knowledge is a funny thing, Issac, it informs by exposing. It shows you precisely how much you don't know. In other's stories, I noticed how similar we all are. Everyone wants the same things and everyone struggles with the same things.”
― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

“Everything we did, whether we were aware or not, we did with white people in mind. Our life's aim was to make them believe we had value and worth, so we spent our nights trying to figure out what they liked, then spent our days trying to do it. We still haven't pleased them, and truth is, we never will.”
― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

“Pride can really kill a man. Actually, it makes him kill himself. He justifies his errors and creates his own righteousness in his mind. Grandma used to say, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death.”
― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

“Children don't carry the weight of history, so their capacity for heavy things might be greater. But few adults believe this, so we pass along only what we think they can bear. Children wonder later why we didn't tell them everything so they could avoid our mistakes.”
― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me