… the gallows, surrounded by a witless crowd with an insatiable blood lust …
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.
Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever.
If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb.
Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent.
I also think that one of the things we often fail to realize is that that kind of violence is now legitimated in multiple public spheres.
