Annie

“After practice on lazy summer afternoons, he’d gather the kids around and tell stories about baseball players long dead, players from the old Negro leagues with names that sounded like brands of candy: Cool Papa Bell, Golly Honey Gibson, Smooth Rube Foster, Bullet Rogan, guys who knocked the ball five hundred feet high into the hot August air at some ballpark far away down south someplace, the stories soaring high over their heads, over the harbor, over their dirty baseball field, past the rude, red-hot projects where they lived. The Negro leagues, Sport said, were a dream. Why, Negro league players had leg muscles like rocks.”
― James McBride, Deacon King Kong

“Irony is a linguistic trust fall.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing

“He’ll be moulded by America, that’s for sure, just by being there. He won’t even be aware it’s happening. He’ll be filled with the American sense of self-belief, and the sense of can-do, and the Harvard sense of entitlement.”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Mr Loverman

“You lucky I ain’t taking a hammer to you, but you’re not worth a life sentence.”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Mr Loverman