Lightning Men Quotes

“He even assembled coops for poultry, not unaware of the irony that he was a prisoner building a prison for lesser creatures.”
― Thomas Mullen, Lightning Men

“But maybe they’d learned, and they’d act just mainstream enough that the other white people would accept their occasional violence”
― Thomas Mullen, Lightning Men

“Didn’t laugh as loud or as often. Smith, too, had seen more”
― Thomas Mullen, Lightning Men

“it.”
― Thomas Mullen, Lightning Men

“Hannah was his cousin, biologically, but they’d been raised thinking each other siblings. Smith hadn’t been told until age sixteen that his true father had been lynched at a 1919 parade, when Smith was an infant, because he dared wear his uniform from the Great War, enraging the white people in his rural Georgia town. A few months later, after Smith’s grieving mother drank an eighth of rye and walked in front of a train, his aunt and uncle took him in, raising him as their son.”
― Thomas Mullen, Lightning Men

“The Kluxers are about more than the color of skin. We are the moral authority.”
― Thomas Mullen, Lightning Men