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“After all,” I said, “I can always go back and shoot those ladies.” That cheered me up.
It started out sleepy and tender, like a gentle reunion. But it turned into… forceful and exciting.
I didn’t have much respect for a God who would watch you in the bedroom and judge on that. If you weren’t hurting each other, and if neither of you was married to someone else, you were okay having sex. It was a free pleasure, in a world that didn’t have that many.
No matter how down I got, ice cream was good, and I should enjoy what I could since it wouldn’t last forever.
You didn’t get afraid like that overnight. It was in the air your whole life.
There were so many people who tried to find a reason for all the bad things that had happened in America, bad things that had destroyed the United States as a country. Blaming it on black people was the easiest solution to a big question.
“You should have known that drastic change doesn’t come about without turmoil and bloodshed.”