“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
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
It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do. — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“Mama just stepped back on the treadmill of worry and hopeless, and kept walking.” — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
