“White folks are the way they want to be, ain’t they? That’s why they’re white folks.” “What way do you mean?” “Well, ruthless. Stealing people’s lives from ’em and making ’em work to make ’em money. The old folks back on the island used to say that’s why they were white; they lost all their color when they lost their souls. You gotta be a certain type of soulless to believe you can own somebody the way they do.”
