"My pa maintained that there are three important parts to a man. You got the heart, the brain, and the python."
- Allan Dare Pearce
"People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition."
"Come meet my dog.""What's the dog's name?""Justice.""Nice touch for a judge. A dog named Justice."
"You can't say asses in church unless you are speaking of donkeys."
"She placed her hands, one on each of his shoulders, stood on her toes and kissed him on the lips. He waited, enjoying the moment like none before."
"I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class list..."
"I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them."
"Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity."
"I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere."
"We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free."