CR Williams

“Way I sees it is dis. If’n ya gots to hab a rule to tells ya wha’s good, if’n ya gots to hab good ’splained to ya, den ya cain’t be good. If’n ya need sum kinda God to tells ya right from wrong, den you won’t never know.”
― Percival Everett, James

“Nothing is more likely to make me abandon something than to be told to do it.”
― Daniel Mason, North Woods

“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
― Percival Everett, James

“I has fallen in love with someone who don't want no parts of me.”
― McBride James, The Good Lord Bird