Not everyone has something to say. This will not stop them from saying it.
Leonard Pitts Jr.For the first time in his life, the very first time in his life, he hated her.
Or he tried to, at least. Tried mightily. But it is a hell of a thing to hate your own mother, to hate where you came from, to hate what succored you and nourished you when you could not do it for yourself. A hell of a thing to hate that, even when it hates you, even when it calls you a nothing, calls you garbage and tells you to throw yourself away. Because even then, she is still your mother.
That's funny, isn't it, how you can know him one way and we can know him some way completely different. Funny how a person can contradict their own self.
Leonard Pitts Jr.You could never tell if he was with you or not, so Cooley liked to talk to him just in case. Just to remind them both that this was still a human being. He never wanted to catch himself treating Jack like a thing, a chore to be done.
Leonard Pitts Jr.They drove through the intersection and turned left on a street Mo had once known like his favorite song. It was strange to him now and he wondered if that was because of the disease or just the natural effect of change itself, the tendency of things to move around on you, to shift when you weren't looking. So that you could get back and be a stranger in your own places.
Leonard Pitts Jr.Don't nobody like a man they can't figure.
Leonard Pitts Jr.It occurred to Mo that he didn't have any pictures of himself as a boy. Every photo he owned, every memento of his life, was from after. It was as if he had been born the day he left. He had gone out from here and invented himself.
Leonard Pitts Jr.Sometimes, you simply must follow your heart," she said. "No reasonable man can blame you for that." A smile. "No reasonable woman can, either.
Leonard Pitts Jr.Tags: book-club
When the inky blackness above shades to a deep blue and the stars lose their hard edge and begin to seem unreal, she rises, wrapping the thin sheet about herself, and steps outside into the morning chill.
Leonard Pitts Jr.Only by vigilance toward everyone's rights do we protect anyone's rights.
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