The Sellout

Be it ancient Rome or modern-day America, you’re either citizen or slave. Lion or Jew. Guilty or innocent. Comfortable or uncomfortable.

it ancient Rome or modern-day America, you’re either citizen or slave. Lion or Jew. Guilty or innocent. Comfortable or uncomfortable.

The problem with closure is that once you have a taste of it, you want it in every little aspect of your life.

Once, while watching my father typing away at his desk, I asked him where his ideas came from. He turned around, his tongue thick with Scotch whiskey, and said, “The real question is not where do ideas come from but where do they go.”

America’s newest race, the Celebrity

“It’s illegal to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater, right?”
“It is.”
“Well, I’ve whispered ‘Racism’ in a post-racial world.”

The problem with closure is that once you have a taste of it, you want it in every little aspect of your life

Floating on my back, I saw the North Star flicker through the steam rising from the water, pointing to a freedom that I didn’t even know if I needed.

“Those are the best dreams, the ones that feel real.”

problem is that we don’t know whether integration is a natural or an unnatural state. Is integration, forced or otherwise, social entropy or social order?