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Because her father taught her that white folks can turn on you at any moment.
They can turn rabid at any second; this is the true result of gathering integration: the replacement of sure violence with deferred sure violence.
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
No one can quite explain why the Intuitionists have a 10 percent higher accuracy rate than the Empiricists.
Lila Mae does not expect human beings to conduct themselves in any other way but how they truly are. Which is weak.
They sent Pompey to sabotage the elevator stack in the Fanny Briggs building, Lila Mae is sure of that. It would have appeased their skewed sense of harmony to pit their two coloreds against each other.
True faith is too serious to have room for the distraction of passion.
Blood is destiny in this land, and she did not choose Intuitionism, as she formerly believed. It chose her.
White people’s reality is built on what things appear to be—that’s the business of Empiricism.
There was no hope for him as a colored man because the white world will not let a colored man rise, and there was no hope for him as a white man because it was a lie. He secretes his venom into the pages of a book. He knows the other world he describes does not exist. There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.
