“I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in the crossroads of history and talked hot and mean about the colored, giving my poor and desperate people… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“It is true that almost everyone in the foothills farmed and hunted, so there were no breadlines, no men holding signs that begged for work and food, no children going door to door, as they did in Atlanta, asking for… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“…dreaming backwards can carry a man through some dark rooms where the walls seem lined with razor blades.” — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“On every pack leaned an M16, except Lori’s. Her son was playing soldier with it in the bleachers. There was no clip in it,… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bottle on the side of the… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“...because dreaming backwards can carry a man through some dark rooms...” — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“I guess it is what you do if you grow up with warnings of damnation ringing from every church door and radio station and… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“They, especially, taught me that you can't go through life not liking people because they didn't have to work as hard or come as… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“But if she was going to live in a damn jungle, she preferred it be a damn jungle in Georgia, she always said, and… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment. — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book. — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
