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Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
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"The law," he continued, "is made by the rich people so that the poor people can't get ahead..."
― Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

"Chirren is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two."
― Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

"A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is, are you on top of that trouble or not?"
― Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

"He said that a men's work cloths are the only real cloths he has."
― Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

"That was why so many Jews back then understood the American Negro; in Europe the Jew had been a Negro for more than a thousand years."
― Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

"We all owe out something, Easy. When you owe out then you're in debt and when you're in debt then you can't be your own man. That's capitalism."
― Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

"Somewhere along the way I had developed the feeling that I wasn't going to outlive the adventure I was having. There was no way out but to run, and I couldn't run, so I decided to milk all those white people for all the money they'd let go of. Money bought everything. Money paid the rent and fed the kitty. Money was why Coretta was dead and why DeWitt Albright was going to kill me. I got the idea, somehow, that if I got enough money then maybe I could buy my own life back."
― Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

"I ate with them and slept with them, and I killed enough blue-eyed young men to know that they were just as afraid to die as I was."
― Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

"often think of how so many people have walked into my life for just a few minutes and kicked up some dust, then they're gone away."
― Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

"A job in a factory is an awful lot like working on a plantation in the South. The bosses see all the workers like they're children, and everyone knows how lazy children are."
― Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

"He use' to play till the cock crowed, but that ole cock don't crow nearly so much no mo'."
― Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

"Every time he slammed his body against the wire fence the jay started as if he were about to fly off, but he didn't. He just kept staring down into those deadly jaws, mesmerized by the spectacle there."
― Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

"He once told me that they'd have to wake him for his execution because "the Mouse ain't gonna miss his rest."
― Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

"Careful don't hurt, Easy. Careful keep your hands up, careful makes ya strong." "So he's just a businessman, huh?" I asked again. "That's right!" "And just exactly what kind of business is it he does? I mean, is he a shirt salesman or what?" "They gotta sayin' for his line'a work, Ease." "What's that?" "Whatever the market can bear." He smiled, looking like a hungry bear himself. "Whatever the market can bear." "I'll think about it."
― Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

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