Before We Were Wicked Quotes

“Why can’t you?” “With love comes responsibility. Love is a choice, and we must choose carefully. And love requires both time and presence. I can’t start something I know I can’t continue.” “Sometimes we choose, and sometimes we are chosen. Cupid and that arrow.” “It’s a choice. There are different kinds of love. Affectionate love. Familiar love. Playful love. Obsessive love. Enduring love. And there are different levels of each love, in my opinion.” “What kind of love do you have for a man like me?” She hummed, bounced her leg. “I think it’s a playful, erotic love.”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Before We Were Wicked

“Black life has no value in the white community. Locking the black man up is a sport. OJ killed a white woman. The prize of all prizes. And the message you heard when all the black people applauded and cheered was that since black lives don’t have value on that side of the tracks, and since they never have, white lives have no value in our community. And that’s not being evil. That’s playing by the rules the man created. You’re watching the oppressed imitate the values and ways of the oppressor. Hate begets hate.” “That’s evil. To even think, let alone say,”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Before We Were Wicked