Deacon King Kong

by James McBride

“It’s better to pray for the saving of an enemy’s soul than their ruination,”

There is nothing on this earth so low as a mother or father who treats their child cruel.”

Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. The lies they tell each other sound better to them than the truth does when it comes out of our mouths.

You is like most white men. You believes you is entitled to something you ain’t got no hand in.