“Caste makes distinctions where God has made none.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“It’s not heart-stopping or intense or bloodcurdling or graphic or violent. No jump scares. To me, these qualities aren’t usually scary. Something that disorients, that unsettles what’s taken for granted, something that disturbs and disrupts reality—that’s scary.”
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“Charles P. Pierce wrote in Esquire, “[Donald] doesn’t plague himself with doubt about what he’s creating around him. He is proud of his monster. He glories in its anger and its destruction and, while he cannot imagine its love, he believes with all his heart in its rage. He is Frankenstein without conscience.”
― Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
― Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
“I had to unlearn the most important lesson I had learned as a child, the most important rule of survival—to be quiet.”
― In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir
― In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir
“Something about how to let folks rest in peace, especially when their peace is different from mine. Louder than mine.”
― Black Boy Out of Time
― Black Boy Out of Time
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