“Cha-Cha favored short, earnest prayer, and he often wondered what took others so long., It had something to do with excess supplication, he suspected. He never presented a long list of specific req...”

“Everybody else cain't be wrong all the time. Sometimes it's gotta be you.”

“You're worried about her forgiving you...but you need to be worrying about why you're acting up in the first place.”

“A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.”

“The truth, when finally revealed, is sticky like wet dough. The majority of it stays in place as one handles it, but pieces break off and adhere, making certain facts seem larger, more portentous, ...”

“You got a child to feed and a life to get on with.”

“The validation of your dreams is not in the colour of your skin but in the quality of your heart.”

“I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder.”

“There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.”

“In Detroit, we all talked the race game. It is a way of life.”

“If a man hasnt found something he will die for, he isnt fit to live.”

“The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise its like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.”

“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with trave...”

“I let out a laugh that sounded more like the yip of a startled poodle. "Superp-powers? I wish. My powers aren't winning me a slot on the Cartoon Network anytime soon... except as a comic relief. Gh...”

“To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.”