“Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.”

“Once The Game Is Over, The King And The Pawn Go Back In The Same Box”

“Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.”

“Other times other customs.”

“He who begins many things finishes but few.”

“Hope is the last thing ever lost.”

“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...”