Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn’t. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations, man.
“Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many times, his voice drifting through the village like an angry phantom. She didn't understand the words, most of them at any rate, but 'created equal' was not lost on her. The white men who wrote it didn't understand it either, if 'all men' did not truly mean all men.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living.”
― Morning Star
― Morning Star
“There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
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