“If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.” — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
