“We had made a fetish out of our misfortune, fallen in love with it.”
“On the far side. What if it’s just…noise?”
“Niceness does not break with white solidarity and white silence. In fact, naming racism is often seen as not nice, triggering white fragility.”
“Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not begin or end: they merely change form.”
“The library is a whispering post.”
“The language of love was the same as the language of medicine.”
“If we could talk to animals, goes the song.”
“The boys could have been many things had they not been ruined by that place.”
“… he was drawn back into the stream of being because there was once again a life in his hands. Things mattered.”
“I won’t tell you what kind of man your daddy was. I’ll let my story do that and you be the judge.”
“Why feel bad about what you couldn’t change? Why not embrace it?”
