Matt Powell

“We drank a glass of wine on the front porch, and the Thompsons made some generalizations about black people that made us feel uncomfortable, although I had certainly heard worse from my father and his friends in London. They loved Lucy and Monk like family, and Cadi loved to go to black church, but there were a lot of worthless blacks on welfare who didn’t want to work, and we should never stop in Tchula, even if we ran down a pedestrian, because the people there would surely rob us, and quite possibly rape Mariah by the side of the road.”
― Richard Grant, Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

“If the experience of the Third Reich teaches us anything, it is that a love of great music, great art and great literature does not provide people with any kind of moral or political immunization against violence, atrocity, or subservience to dictatorship.”
― Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich

“One of her classmates asked a prisoner what was the worst thing about being there. “The first time they fuck you in the ass,” he replied, and this was the first time that she and her classmates learned about that kind of rape.”
― Richard Grant, Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

“We felt there was a creeping tepidness in music, a cloying softness, as if music were only a salve, not an instigator. It’s”
― Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir