The Purdzilla Show

Photo by Miguel Ángel Hernández on Unsplash 'You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts trying to be Paul - though you still Saul around on the side.' Ralph Ellison (in Invisible Man )

Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokemen to get their ideas across. If they want to tell the world a lie, they can tell it so well that it becomes the truth; and if I tell them that you're lying, they'll tell the world even if you prove you're telling the truth. Because it's the kind of lie they want to hear... Ralph Ellison (in Invisible Man )

Photo by Ales Krivec on Unsplash I stretched out beneath the covers, hearing the springs groan beneath me. The room was cold. I listened to the night sounds of the house. The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled. Ralph Ellison (in Invisible Man )