In politics, everyone regards themselves as a moderate, because they know some other sumbitch who's twice as crazy as they are.
Timothy B. TysonMots clés politics crazy moderates sumbitch
Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.
Timothy B. TysonMots clés united-states race-relations chasms moral-clarity
We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.
Timothy B. TysonThe world had kenneled a vicious lie in my brain…
Timothy B. TysonOxford was as drenched in Dixie as we were, just about as Southern a town as you would ever hope to find, which generally was a good thing, because that meant that the weather was nice, except when it was hot enough to fry pork chops on the pavement, and the food was delicious, though it would thicken the walls of your arteries and kill you deader than Stonewall Jackson, and the people were big hearted and friendly, though it was not the hardest place in the world to get murdered for having bad manners. Even our main crop could kill you.
Timothy B. TysonWhat others might dismiss as the vagaries of fate, my father interpreted as dancing lessons from the Divine.
Timothy B. TysonTobacco put food on our tables, steeples on our churches, stains on our fingers, spots on our lungs, and contradictions in our hearts.
Timothy B. TysonWhat the advocates of our dangerous and deepening social amnesia don’t understand is how deeply the past holds the future in its grip—even, and perhaps especially, when it remains unacknowledged.
Timothy B. TysonThat we not become prejudiced against those are prejudiced, or whose prejudices. May no be our own.
Timothy B. TysonWe want to transcend our history without actually confronting it. We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here.
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