Jungle Rot Quotes

“ifn you doan likes what you sees, you jes go on out theah and makes a more fittin’ world for yoselves and all the childrens.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“It be wrong to be questionin’ and frettin’ over what you ain’t, ’cause what you is, dat be real fine.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“Tears be’s de way a man keeps his heart washed clean of all de ugly things.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“I have been backed into a corner by these assholes, which means, if you think about it … what it means is that ultimately, when it all comes down, it really wasn’t me who did it after all, was it?”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“Just like before when I was Jesus, I shall have to drink this cup to the dregs.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“it is as though they are forcing my hand. I don’t want to kill a thousand people. Regardless of their worth, regardless of whether or not they should continue living, it’s not a burden I should have to carry alone.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“I am in a hellhole surrounded by your Goddamned unwanted family rejects.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“ninety percent of my ‘flock’ can’t fucking read or write anyway, the illiterate assholes. Now I’m responsible for that, too? Blame the good old U. S of Ass for our educational system in the ghettos.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“So that’s how it is nowadays, only one way at Jonestown. You come in, you don’t leave.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“their belief in me is total. Nobody’s discrediting that. And causing contempt for the United States of America? Goddamned right. ‘Ask not what I can do for my country,’ and I have done plenty. Ask better what hasn’t it done for me?”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“Ask not what I can do for my country,’ and I have done plenty. Ask better what hasn’t it done for me?”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“you are a hell of a lot better off trying to avoid the free health care out in this place.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“Jonestown has shown me what true prejudice is,”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“Then, smiling his darling gap-toothed grin, he begins, “Okay, okay, here’s what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna put Mommy Grace down the well. I’m gonna hang her there by her titties,” he giggles, “till she screams and screams. Are you real glad, Daddy?”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“it is only because we are in the darkness, which is a generous light to a woman approaching her mid-thirties.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“I fight the grim reaper for them and they begrudge me chilled pineapple juice”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“Nature has designed every living creature for a specific purpose here on earth and their design makes it obvious to me what their needs and uses are. In allowing them exclusive run of the fields here I, have merely returned them to nature.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“Since arriving here I have had a perpetual fever of one hundred and five, which I hope quashes any criticism of why I do not wander around the fields spreading bonhomie.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“I have been anticipating tears but I have been hoping for a reprieve from them, at least until after we have eaten dinner. That was too much to ask for, apparently, so I will plunge into her latest emotional morass manfully, as I have a thousand times before.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“I have watched him fail as a man, let alone as a God, in every way that a man can fail, but, stained as he is, I love him still.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“I love this country. If it is not today the place where all the tired and poor are still welcomed, if it never was that place, it does not matter. Blood-stained and imperfect, it remains beautiful to me.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust