Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is.When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, it was tolerable.We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  Buchanan. Buchanan Dying, act1.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else.But the fact is, you got to give 'em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

-Walker, Alice Malsenior
  Pa.The Color Purple.