Robin

“I had never seen a sneer morph so seamlessly into a smile before. Her moods could switch from superior to vile to magnanimous in moments. I couldn’t think of a more dangerous personality.”
― Anonymous

“I think that we Americans, at least in the Southern col[onie]s, cannot contend with a good grace for liberty until we shall have enfranchised our slaves,” Laurens told a friend right before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

“If the party room was expansive debauchery, this room was...distilled. The hard liquor of fucking. Sin on the rocks.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Pain

“One planter in Georgia argued that a former slave had shown himself “certainly unfit for freedom” because, “impudently,” he didn’t allow himself to be whipped.”
― Derrick Jensen, The Culture of Make Believe