Liv

“It's not been a horrible life, Isaac. It's just been a lonely one. But that was my own doing. Reading taught me that a man's life is his own responsibility, his own creation. Blaming others is a waster of time. No one can make you happy if you're determined to be miserable. And, for many years, I was.”
― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

“Reconsider the capacity of our fathers’ hearts. Many of them were handed so little, yet we expected so much. They gave more than they had, but less than what we needed.”
― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

“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