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If i didnt feel sick before I do now
believe in the devil, all right, but man don’t need no help from Satan to do what folks call ‘evil’. Man do evil ev’ry day and call it doin’ their job.
’Cuz, see, colored folks fighting for what’s theirs is like a virus to white folks—and they kill a virus so it don’t spread. That killing is the work of man, not the devil. And if there’s any such thing as evil on this earth, Gloria, it’s here in Gracetown. In the soil, hear? Gracetown soil remembers. It’s like a mirror that shines yo’ ugly back at you.”
Did Robbie feel it?
Little Does she know he's seen it
It’s a damn shame for the girls who do get raped when someone lies.
unaired feelings ate you up inside.
Not all skin folk were kin folk,
They wear you down one wrong at a time,
Anyone can change with help from God,
“He calls himself Robert now,” Mrs. Hamilton said. “Like his father.”
Fire lived in raging beauty and died in silent ash, painting everything it touched black.
killing. Every path he took with Blue meant walking past someone else’s dying.
a man who was the closest Robert had seen to the devil himself.
