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1 " He even assembled coops for poultry, not unaware of the irony that he was a prisoner building a prison for lesser creatures. "
― Thomas Mullen , Lightning Men (Darktown, #2)
2 " The Kluxers are about more than the color of skin. We are the moral authority. "
3 " Didn’t laugh as loud or as often. Smith, too, had seen more "
4 " Hannah was his cousin, biologically, but they’d been raised thinking each other siblings. Smith hadn’t been told until age sixteen that his true father had been lynched at a 1919 parade, when Smith was an infant, because he dared wear his uniform from the Great War, enraging the white people in his rural Georgia town. A few months later, after Smith’s grieving mother drank an eighth of rye and walked in front of a train, his aunt and uncle took him in, raising him as their son. "