The Situation in South Carolina Quotes

“he realized that From Cooter to Michael Coble, his purpose as his fallen friend’s sentinel was futile. The world was too harsh and unforgiving, and he, Ahmad, Napoleon James and the residents of Hoptown, armed with optimism, small-caliber firearms, God and their idealistic blockade were insufficient barriers to inevitability. Solidarity, prayer and vengeance were all useless. As always, the strong prevailed, and the weak, the right, and the innocent were slaughtered and forgotten.”
― Michael Harriot, The Situation in South Carolina: A Novel

“He settled with himself the miserable realization that all men were sniveling cowards hunkered like squirrels in the days before winter trying to preserve and protect their overabundance of acorns.”
― Michael Harriot, The Situation in South Carolina: A Novel

“Conspiracy theorists, skeptics, and revolutionaries love to accuse unnamed cabals of hidden white men of running the country, while oblivious or innocent thinkers point to the Constitution and the idea of democracy and denounce these notions. The truth is somewhere in between.”
― Michael Harriot, The Situation in South Carolina: A Novel

“Sometimes, foxholes or simple proximity bind two people together as friends for life.”
― Michael Harriot, The Situation in South Carolina: A Novel

“My father, who is here now, was a man of few words, but a strong, looming figure in my life. His words were few, but important. Whenever I would come to him with these frustrations, he offered me very little advice. He would only say to me 'so what you gon' do?' Those words have come to shape my life. They taught me that I was the largest and most important architect of my fate.”
― Michael Harriot, The Situation in South Carolina: A Novel