Six Easy Pieces Quotes

“Freedom for us has always been dangerous. Freedom for us has been a crime as far back as our oldest memories. And so whenever we’re feeling liberation we know that there’s somebody nearby with a rope and a collar, a shotgun and a curse.”
― Walter Mosley, Six Easy Pieces

“My father once told me that a great man walks the back roads. He does what’s right every day and no one knows it but those lucky enough to be loved by him.”
― Walter Mosley, Six Easy Pieces

“Men are weak, Mr. Rawlins. They’re strong of arm but frail in their hearts. They need forgiveness more than women do.”
― Walter Mosley, Six Easy Pieces

“went out of the front door without answering because all I had in my lungs was a scream.”
― Walter Mosley, Six Easy Pieces

“nighttime is kind on the eyes.”
― Walter Mosley, Six Easy Pieces

“Same thing’s wrong with all men,” the white woman said in a husky voice. “Thinkin’ about a woman’s butt and then wonderin’ why they got shit for brains.”
― Walter Mosley, Six Easy Pieces

“I went out of the front door without answering because all I had in my lungs was a scream.”
― Walter Mosley, Six Easy Pieces

“I was living out the dream of emancipation—a free man in America, desperate for someone to rein me in.”
― Walter Mosley, Six Easy Pieces