Jade

“America is the smart-aleck adolescent who’s “been around” and has his own hot rod.”
― Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel

“Dance is the universal art, the common joy of expression. Those who cannot dance are imprisoned in their own ego and cannot live well with other people and the world. They have lost the tune of life. They only live in cold thinking. Their feelings are deeply repressed while they attach themselves forlornly to the earth.”
― Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel

“Yes. You see, it’s not 1 of those germs that break bleed suck gnaw or devour. It’s nothing we can bring into focus or categorize; once we call it 1 thing it forms into something else.”
― Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel

“Perhaps, he considered, her hypocrisy had become so ingrained that she was no longer even capable of perceiving it as such.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods