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Percival Everett

  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted3 months ago
    The only ones who suffer when they are made to feel inferior is us.
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted3 months ago
    Religion is just a controlling tool they employ and adhere to when convenient.
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted3 months ago
    “He’s going to get drunk now, not so much because he can, but because we can’t,”
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted3 months ago
    “Sad as that may be, I’m still a slave and I can’t help him at all.”
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted3 months ago
    I was as much scared as angry, but where does a slave put anger? We could be angry with one another; we were human. But the real source of our rage had to go without address, swallowed, repressed.
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted3 months ago
    How strange a world, how strange an existence, that one’s equal must argue for one’s equality, that one’s equal must hold a station that allows airing of that argument, that one cannot make that argument for oneself, that premises of said argument must be vetted by those equals who do not agree.
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted3 months ago
    If they can have meaning, then life can have meaning, then I can have meaning.
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted3 months ago
    I admired that, was envious of it, to tell the truth, to be able to feel that in a world without fear of being hanged to death, or worse.
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted3 months ago
    We were both animals and we didn’t know which of us was the prey. We accepted that we both were.
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted3 months ago
    I can tell you that I am a man who is cognizant of his world, a man who has a family, who loves a family, who has been torn from his family, a man who can read and write, a man who will not let his story be self-related, but self-written.
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