Quotes by Allan Dare Pearce

Family is more important than anything.

Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. Thats one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man.

He 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.

To the extent a man can control chaos, he should put his testicles on the line and do so, but when a man cant, he should just step aside, or someone in the lineup behind him is gonna bite his ass.

Racism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesnt appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff?

These young people are going to change the world.

Kids are important. The most important thing.

My 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.

Some days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days you didnt bother praying, knowing there was no sense to anything.

Are we praying? If you have to ask, you probably arent.

My pa maintained that there are three important parts to a man. You got the heart, the brain, and the python.

People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.

Come meet my dog.Whats the dogs name?Justice.Nice touch for a judge. A dog named Justice.

You cant say asses in church unless you are speaking of donkeys.

She 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.

I 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.

I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.

Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity.

I 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.

We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free.