This sense of otherness is the single most pernicious force in American discourse. Its not-like-us ethos makes so much bigotry pos...sible: racism, sexism, homophobia. It divides the country as surely as the Mason-Dixon line once did.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a... sporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you have wit, use it to please, and not to hurt; you may shine, like the sun in the temperature zones, without scorching. Here ...it is wished for; under the Line it is dreaded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line--the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in A...sia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here come the line-gang pioneering by. They throw a forest down less cut than broken.... They plant dead trees for living, and the dead They string together with a living thread.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What're you always trying to push me in the gutter for, Dixon? I got as much right on the sidewalk as you have. Don't talk to me a...bout "rights." You're a hood and a murderer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »