Quotes from Thomas Mullen

The Kluxers are about more than the color of skin. We are the moral authority.

So although only one of them had seen her face, and that just for a second, they let her disappear into the night, which would never release her.

But maybe they'd learned, and they'd act just mainstream enough that the other white people would accept their occasional violence

He asked that the Lord keep her spirit, whoever she was. He asked that she find peace. And he prayed for the Lord's forgiveness, because he had seen her in that car with the white man who hit her, and he hadn't done anything to help her.

Das Problem war nur, dass zwar die Weißen vom Virus befallen wurden, aber andere Leute sterben mussten.

Doch Warten war ein Luxus, den er sich nicht mehr leisten konnte.

Maybe you were supposed to move forward armed with just enough history to help you figure out the present without obsessing over the past. But how much was enough? Where was the gray area between ignorance and obsession?

The grime of living is so much more interesting than the shine of eternity, I've always thought." He

He subjected himself to the fact that the very road he was on changed names from Boulevard to Monroe not because the road itself changed but because the southern length of it was a colored neighborhood and the northern length was white and therefore the people who lived on it should put different words on their return addresses. He

He wanted to say, That's my business, and mind yours. He wanted to ask them if they had a beat they should be walking. He sorely wanted to mouth off, and right then he didn't even mind being outnumbered two to one. But they had thousands at their backs. So he tried to look friendly. Even smiled. Hating himself for it.

Didn't laugh as loud or as often. Smith, too, had seen more

They had each survived into adulthood by proceeding warily, yet now they were expected to walk with a heavy step and newfound power through their neighborhoods. In every other part of the city, however, they were still expected to vanish, or worse.

Sometimes it's the ones who claim they're progressive who are the worst, because they act like they are the very boundary between the possible and the impossible, and they never let you cross them.

He had broken plenty of rules today. If he wasn't fired for it, he would break a few more.

I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.