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“Evil is arrogant, just as in the days when it breathed through the slave traders, and then the Nazis.”

“I know what it is to bury a child. I belong to that most unnatural fellowship. Old folks like me shouldn’t be burying our children every day like we are. But our fellowship grows. When the old have buried all the young, that’s when the world dies.”

Part Three

“…Man, why should thought of death caused you to weep, Since death is but an endless, dreamless sleep.”

— James Weldon Johnson, “Blessed Sleep”

Ka-YA - “Stay and don’t go back.”

Everyone in Hilton’s life thinks he needs help. He’s confusing realities

“I left you a curse, not a blessing.”

“Maybe he was simply losing his mind. In some ways, Hilton decided, that would be a relief.”


Hilton’s family threatened, marriage on the rocks, he isn’t sleeping and when he is he has nightmares. He’s becoming more aggressive and paranoid

“Racism was out there, and Hilton figured it was better for his kids to grow up knowing it rather than fooling themselves into thinking everything was wonderful because they could drink from any water fountain or sit in classrooms next to little white kids.”

Poor Hilton. It’s like his daughter grew up over night

Hilton knew that “anything left unsaid was far more dangerous than spoken words could be.”