Little Green Quotes

“Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“You can't fight with death, all you can do is stand your ground and hope that the foundation don't fall out from under you.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“We both knew that knowledge is the deepest kind of trust.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“I often felt that he had to be as smart as he was just to keep his head above the waters of continual”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“I had been raised to be wary of change in the world. The more things change, the more they stay the same, people had always told me. But maybe that wasn’t so.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“looking for that sweet oblivion that all young men, white and black, thought could save them from the greater darkness that dogged their heels.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“Asking a Southern woman for plain hospitality was like winking at a leprechaun: She had to give up her pot of gold no matter what.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“In America money could buy anything, even pretend dignity.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“Along with anxiety and fear my people had inherited spite and rage for the centuries of oppression that we were reminded of almost every day of our lives. To experience the malice of generations in a moment is a taste so bitter that it could make an otherwise healthy man retch.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“I liked Evander because he was smart enough to make sense out of the abstractions of language. Many young people hear you say the pot is hot but they still have to touch it.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“The last thing I remembered I was a mature man with the sap still running, driving a car in the night. Now I was middle-aged and achy, dizzy too. It was a foregone conclusion that I would never be young again.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“I smiled because she was dressed the way her mother did when she was the same age.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“There was a generation of French men and women who understood, however briefly, what it was to be treated like a dog in your own home.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“Along with anxiety and fear my people had inherited spite and rage for the centuries of oppression that we were reminded of almost every day of our lives.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“We—almost every black man, woman, and child in America—inherited anxieties like others received red hair or blue eyes.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“Money means freedom; that was what people in the white America thought then. Citizens like me knew that whatever you had could be taken away in an instant. We knew that value was first and foremost defined by the hand that offered it. Those on the receiving end were one-legged tightrope walkers.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“That’s what the Watts Riots did for L.A. For the first time West Coast Caucasians were frightened of almost any black face that loomed before them. We had proved that we were willing to fight, but most white people didn’t understand our complaints and so were afraid of almost anything we did.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“Black men of our day were never told , the skies the limit. Our limits were more like the inner lid of a coffin.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“Black men of our day were never told, the skies the limit. Our limits were more like the inner lid of a coffin.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green

“I wore death on my shoulder like a superheroes cape, but that didn't matter. I was going to fight the good fight and, win or lose, I'd be counted as a man who struggled against his own fate.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Green