The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wil...ds of the Ozarks! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother's side!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All I have to do is hear his name... and every hair on my body just bristles with desire. When I see the moon of his face, this frame of mine oozes sweat like a moonstone. When that man as dear to me as breath steps close enough to me to stroke my neck, the thought of jealousy is shattered in my heart that's hard as diamond sometimes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... there is a dangerous trend observable in some quarters of the Movement to program Sapphire out of her "evil" ways into a cover...-up, shut-up, lay-back-and-be-cool obedience role. She is being assigned an unreal role of mute servant that supposedly neutralizes the acidic tension that exists between Black men and Black women. She is being encouraged--in the name of revolution no less--to cultivate "virtues" that if listed would sound like the personality traits of slaves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called... by no meaner name than diplomacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear,... I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cinna. I am not Cinna the conspirator. Fourth Plebian. It is no matter, his name's Cinna! Pluck but his name out of his heart..., and turn him going.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »