Light in August Race Quotes

She is a Yankee. Her folks come down here in the Reconstruction, to stir up the n*****s. Two of them got killed doing it. They say she is still mixed up with n*****s. Visits them when they are sick, like they was white. Wont have a cook because it would have to be a n***** cook. Folks say she claims that n*****s are the same as white folks. That's why folks don't never go out there. (2.55)

He watched his body grow white out of the darkness like a Kodak print emerging from the liquid. (5.10)

His face was gaunt, the flesh a level dead parchment color. (2.9)