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I might wind up coming home in pieces.’
Foreshadowing...
was the worst possible guardian for him – a black to watch over him in a society that considered blacks subhuman, a woman to watch over him in a society that considered women perennial children.
She was too much nervous energy compacted into too small a container.
‘And you’re reading too little into it. Anyway . . . anyway, it’s not their game.’
Kevin, you don’t have to beat people to treat them brutally.’
‘The ease. Us, the children . . . I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery.’
There was no shame in raping a black woman, but there could be shame in loving one.
He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.
Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of ‘wrong’ ideas.
