Farewell, Amethystine Quotes

“One of the things about the TV age is that people around the nation were slowly being brainwashed. This is what I believed then and now. They turn against their own and themselves because of impossible renditions of goodness, beauty, intelligence, and, worst of all, humanity. That young woman—I never knew her name—couldn’t find it in her heart to forgive my poverty-scented invasion of her perfect soap-opera world.”
― Walter Mosley, Farewell, Amethystine

“You wouldn’t know by looking that we were a nation waging war on Vu Von Lihn’s people. You wouldn’t know the hatred and antipathy harbored between the races, religions, classes, and sexes. They didn’t know. Most people, at least most whites, thought that everything was fine. Children made more money than their parents did, peace had been retained by the war I’d fought in, and freedom was available to everybody who deserved it—as long as they spoke English while praising Jesus and the almighty dollar.”
― Walter Mosley, Farewell, Amethystine

“freedom was available to everybody who deserved it—as long as they spoke English while praising Jesus and the almighty dollar.”
― Walter Mosley, Farewell, Amethystine