Sublime

Jack had noticed many times that anyone with any sort of place in life became, at some point, the exasperated authority.

If de blues was whiskey, I'd stay drunk all de time.

it may be said of the Reconstruction Era that the Southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow…a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man better than the black man.”

The freedom of disregard.

The negro is free, but he can share neither the rights, nor the pleasures, nor the labor, nor the afflictions, nor the tomb of him whose equal he has been declared to be; and he cannot meet him upon fair terms in life or in death.

Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you about yourself, they were about to fuck you over.

gasoline.

Picture the third-person narrator as a small, emotionless, but intelligent creature sitting on the shoulder of the character who is experiencing the story.

they had known something terrible about the world. Perhaps they so willingly parted with the security and sanctity of the black