"A linebacker's job is to knock out running backs, to knock out receivers, to chase the football."

"Remove the word black and say 'lives matter'... Stop sending mothers back home empty. You can never replace a mother'…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."

"For we Americans, though we are the most restless race in the world, with the possible exception of the Bedouins, alm…"

"Chicago is stupefying. It knows no rules, and I know none by which to judge it. It stands apart from all the cities i…"

"Kansas used to believe in Populism and free silver. It now believes in hot summers and a hot hereafter."

"It was a Native Son who, when asked by an Englishman, visiting the United States for the first time, to name the Seve…"