The Mayor of Maxwell Street Quotes

“Don’t speak. Be invisible. Jimmy knew what it meant to be invisible. All his life, people made a sincere effort not to see him.”
― Avery Cunningham, The Mayor of Maxwell Street

“When you haven't been born at the top of the hill . . . then everyone you meet is a rung that lifts you up.”
― Avery Cunningham, The Mayor of Maxwell Street

“I'm a partial connoisseur of diamonds, and everyone always forgets that diamonds are just rocks. Dull, blunt, boring, and fucking priceless. But people don't want priceless. They want flashy. And the knockoffs are always the flashiest.”
― Avery Cunningham, The Mayor of Maxwell Street

“Anyone could grow to love anyone, with time, but once you pitied someone's lot, you were likely to pity them forever. No matter how fortune's wheel might turn.”
― Avery Cunningham, The Mayor of Maxwell Street

“Anyone could grow to love anyone, with time, but once you pitied someone's low, you were likely to pity them forever. No matter how fortune's wheel might turn.”
― Avery Cunningham, The Mayor of Maxwell Street

“Shame doesn’t come from how others feel about you, but from how you feel about yourself,” Jay said.”
― Avery Cunningham, The Mayor of Maxwell Street

“There ain’t no honor in suffering, not even for the ones you love.”
― Avery Cunningham, The Mayor of Maxwell Street

“Like so many great plantation homes littering the South in 1915, White Pine”
― Avery Cunningham, The Mayor of Maxwell Street