Rich folk don't try so hard

I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary.

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.

That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.