Jay

“Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor - if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American Imperative.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“I was always just smart enough to get a good grade without actually learning anything. I was an expert in the nonfunctional accumulation of knowledge.”
― Erich Wurster, The Coaster

“For the first four, nearly five, years of their lives, I’d had complete understanding of my sons’ brains. Every animal Cap identified—I knew where he’d learned it. Every food Leo liked—I knew when he’d first tasted it. Every word they used came from me or a book we’d read together. Even as they started to have their own thoughts and ideas—“I’m a doggie, and you’re the mommy doggie, and we’re going to fall in the mud”—I could source the books and experiences they were mixing and matching.”
― Hilary Liftin, Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper

“In death the negro became a human being. Only then was he the white man’s equal.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad