Caleb Logan

“Preacher tell nigger that God is man and baby. Then he say that God is baby in December but man only four month later. But then he say God is father and he is son and he is spirit. That sound like he breed himself to get himself, then kill himself. White man God perplexing like the white man.”
― Marlon James, The Book of Night Women

“How on earth did this happen to the reader in chief? What became of literature’s vaunted power to inspire empathy? (A power that we simultaneously disavow and perpetually cite.)”
― Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things: Essays

“NOT ALL VIOLENCE is hot. There’s cold violence, too, which takes its time and finally gets its way. Children going to school and coming home are exposed to it. Fathers and mothers listen to politicians on television calling for their extermination. Grandmothers have no expectation that even their aged bodies are safe: any young man may lay a hand on them with no consequence. The police could arrive at night and drag a family out into the street. Putting a people into deep uncertainty about the fundamentals of life, over years and decades, is a form of cold violence.”
― Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things: Essays

“But sometime, a negro get tired of white man stomping so he grab the foot, twist and break it. Sometime a negro say, Enough done be enough now.”
― Marlon James, The Book of Night Women