02UndatedAnyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That's one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
03UndatedHe believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
04UndatedTo the extent a man can control chaos, he should put his testicles on the line and do so, but when a man can't, he should just step aside, or someone in the lineup behind him is gonna bite his ass.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
05UndatedRacism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesn't appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff?Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
08UndatedMy father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
09UndatedSome days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days you didn't bother praying, knowing there was no sense to anything.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
11UndatedMy pa maintained that there are three important parts to a man. You got the heart, the brain, and the python.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
12UndatedPeople have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
13UndatedCome meet my dog.""What's the dog's name?""Justice.""Nice touch for a judge. A dog named Justice.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
14UndatedYou can't say asses in church unless you are speaking of donkeys.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
15UndatedShe placed her hands, one on each of his shoulders, stood on her toes and kissed him on the lips. He waited, enjoying the moment like none before.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
16UndatedI am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class listening to bullshit professors. Give me a bricklayer with a racist attitude. It is just more honest.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
19UndatedI am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
20UndatedWe are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
21UndatedBut, ladies and gentlemen, we will also be asked to make sacrifices in matters that are not our affair and that do not concern us, sacrifices that would leave our people bleeding or wounded, or even dead, from battle. There is no equality for us in this lifetime.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
22UndatedUntil the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
23UndatedBecause this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.Allan Dare Pearce / quote ↗
