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181 " I wore death on my shoulder like a superheroes cape, but that didn't matter. I was going to fight the good fight and, win or lose, I'd be counted as a man who struggled against his own fate. "
― Walter Mosley , Little Green (Easy Rawlins, #12)
182 " But I wasn’t there to treat the incurable ills of megalomania. "
― Walter Mosley , Charcoal Joe (Easy Rawlins #14)
183 " Two of the deacons were just boys. I guess they had to join a gang one way or another, and the church won out. "
― Walter Mosley , A Red Death (Easy Rawlins #2)
184 " Black men of our day were never told, the skies the limit. Our limits were more like the inner lid of a coffin. "
185 " there was enough trouble in my trough; I’d save the reeducation of the white race for sometime later in the week. "
186 " Black men of our day were never told , the skies the limit. Our limits were more like the inner lid of a coffin. "
187 " That modern law in the United States was based on economic class and what the popular opinion classified as evil, "
― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)
188 " I could imagine a life in a world maybe a hundred years from now where my ideas and some man’s might be the same. "
189 " The first thing a black man and a poor man learns is that trouble is all he’s got so that’s what he has to work with. "
― Walter Mosley , Black Betty (Easy Rawlins #4)
190 " wealth "
― Walter Mosley , Known to Evil (Leonid McGill, #2)
191 " went out of the front door without answering because all I had in my lungs was a scream. "
― Walter Mosley , Six Easy Pieces (Easy Rawlins #8)
192 " I went out of the front door without answering because all I had in my lungs was a scream. "
193 " derring "
― Walter Mosley , 47
194 " Sometimes you’re hoping that things will be different, that men and women will change over the years and become those good, if hard, folks that the preachers talk about. But it never changes. And if something does get good for a while you could be sure that it will turn sour before you have time to get any real pleasure. "
195 " What’s that got to do with a few gray hairs?” Angelo wanted to know. “Girl see one or two and she thinks maybe the man done aged enough to calm down, make somethin’ outta himself. She willin’ to let him look so maybe she could see what his prospects are like. That way a man like me might get a great night or a lifetime of pot roasts, fat babies, and halfhearted regrets. "
196 " I always talk about down home like it really was home. Like everybody who looked like me and talked like me really cared about me. I knew that life was hard, but I hoped that if someone stole from me it would be because they were hungry and needed it. But some people will tear you down just to see you fall. They’ll do it even if your loss is their own. "
197 " You know, the undersized genius had said, ain’t no way in the world that black folks could’a done enough bad to call all them centuries’a pain down on our heads. "
― Walter Mosley , Cinnamon Kiss (Easy Rawlins #10)
198 " There are ten thousand perfectly good reasons not to have children but hearing the love in Feather’s voice trumped every one. "
199 " I seen it all,” old Coydog used to say, “but that don’t mean I seen everything. "
― Walter Mosley , The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
200 " Some people live according to love and being loved—if only a little. "
― Walter Mosley , The Man in My Basement