"I have a suspicion that you are all mad...but God forbid that madness should in any way interrupt friendship."

This book has become one of my absolute favorites. Written by a black man with a white mother it really captures some of the challenges that come from being mixed race. I found myself relating to the characters and getting that feeling of oh I'm not the only one. I would highly recommend this book to anyone I know, but especially to people of mixed race because I feel it captures the experience of not quite knowing what you are really well.

Finally got through He'll, now reading Purgatory. I like Dante, but am getting tired of the long readings for my class.

My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, and to do that well craves a kind of wit.

In all the free time I don't have, I've decided to start something that's been sitting on my shelf for a while.

"If God had wanted humans to be vegetarians, He'd have given them cow's teeth and an extra stomach."