“Nothing succeeds like success.”

“All for one one for all.”

“Cbercbez lafemme. (Find the woman.)”

“My father was a Creole his father a Negro and his father a monkey my family it seems begins where yours left off.”

“All for one one for all.”

“Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop the slave masters from hurting their families. Daddy also said there's nothin...”

“When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was hearing. I had to, or I never would have made it past the first letter. If I sto...”

“After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts like a Chinese nest of boxes oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front in our ancestors, back and back until...”