Raven

“The committee hanged the body “from an oak tree on the courthouse lawn.” People reportedly displayed Neal’s fingers and toes as souvenirs. Postcards of his dismembered body went for fifty cents each. When the sheriff cut down the body the next morning, a mob of as many as two thousand people demanded that it be rehanged. When the sheriff refused to return it to the tree, the mob attacked the courthouse and rampaged through Marianna, attacking any colored person they ran into. Well-to-do whites hid their maids or sent cars to bring their workers to safety. “We needed these people,” said a white man who sat on his porch protecting his interests with a loaded Winchester. Florida Governor David Sholtz had to call in the National Guard to quell the mob. Across”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

“And the way you find out how much they care is by looking into the eyes—eyes never learn how to lie.”
― V.C. Andrews, Petals on the Wind

“It was an empowering thing, she thought, to be able to pick and choose what and whom she allowed in her life.”
― Michelle Stimpson, Divas of Damascus Road

“I want you to understand that what is black to one person is white to another. And nothing in this world is so perfect that it is pure white, or so bad it is pure black. Everything concerning human beings comes in shades of gray, Carrie.”
― V.C. Andrews, Petals on the Wind