She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

Easy comfort isn't comforting

I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.