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" Jordan's Alley, now part of the West End, is still the poorest section of the city, still overwhelmingly black; the rate of neighborhood-school students qualifying for free and reduced lunch is by far the highest in the city, at 98.17 percent. But as Sweet Sue and Mother Ingram described the community the way it was when the Muse family migrated there, I realized I had to look beyond the peeling paint and the sagging porches. I sensed there were plenty of rich histories waiting to be unearthed on the tongues of octogenarians, in old scrapbooks, and in remote court files. I just had to dig. "
― Beth Macy , Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
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" Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated—in the main, abominably—because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.” The true grotesque, in Baldwin’s view, isn’t the monster or the freak but rather members of mainstream society who, clinging to safety, abhor differentness. "
― Beth Macy , Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South