"'Did he ever--try?'
Mingus shrugged. 'He was like you.'
'What's that mean?'
'Means he tried.'
Of course. The ring was not a neutral tool. It judged its wearer: Aaron Doily flew drunkenly, and Dylan flew like a coward, only when it didn't matter, at the Windles' pond. So if had attuned to Robert Woolfolk's chaos.
'Don't tell me,' said Dylan. 'He flew sideways.'
Mingus left it vague. He'd always made it his habit to protect their honor against one another--Dylan, Arthur, Robert. To say nothing."
— Jonathan Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude)

"'Why is it that white people find it easier to think like a mountain than like a person of colour?'

Carl Anthony quoted by Rebecca Solnit"
— Rebecca Solnit (Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics)