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Then she remembers Fulton liked to go into the field every now and again so he wouldn’t forget.
Important to touch base with community/places affected by theories and policies about them
You want to say to yourself, how can people live like this, but then we are all dealt differently and you have to play what you’re dealt.
He just asked for effect.
Until the city and the Department work out their overtime policies there’s no way Lila Mae is going to fill in for the night shift.
but the most famous city in the world, and the rules are different here.
New York?
As it is in politics, the only victor in the end was ugly compromise.
and the generous illusion of choice.
the very neighborhoods, it turns out, where the key and foundational character deficits reside. Nobody’s quite up to investigating those localities, or prepared to acknowledge or remark upon them anyway; to do so would lead to instructive, yes, but no doubt devastating revelations about their jobs, about themselves.
Because her father taught her that white folks can turn on you at any moment.
The first thing a colored person does when she enters a white bar is look for other colored people.
they reach for the grocer’s last box of cereal to prevent the next customer from enjoying it, and don’t even like cereal.
“I wouldn’t live in this neighborhood if you paid me,”
One of the side effects of people intent on erasing you from their lives is that sometimes they erase you when it might not be beneficial.
She doesn’t take to it, being waited on by colored people. This is wrong.
No one can quite explain why the Intuitionists have a 10 percent higher accuracy rate than the Empiricists.
men of little ambition who sweat out their days looking at the calendar for their retirement date.
The boy forgave his sister because it did not occur to him that he had been insulted until his mother got mad.
Kids don’t grow up racist or talking about race; others and society put it on them
