How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"Breakfast? Want some breakfast, nigger?"
"Yes, sir."
"Hungry, nigger?"
"Yes, sir."
"Here you go."
Occasionally, a kneeling man chose gunshot in his head as the price, maybe, of taking a bit of foreskin with him to Jesus. (10.5-10)
If you don't understand this quote, you're probably too young to understand this quote. So let's keep it that way.
Quote #8
A man could risk his own life, but not his brother's. (10.14)
That's the bond of brotherhood for you. But it's also practical. If you're on a chain gang you really can't act out or everyone suffers.
Quote #9
The last of the Sweet Home men, so named and called by one who would know, believed it…. Was that it? Is that where manhood lay? In the naming done by a whiteman who was supposed to know? Who gave them the privilege not of working but of deciding how to? No. In their relationship with Garner was true metal: they were believed and trusted, but most of all they were listened to. (13.1-2)
Paul D's making a case for Garner as a good guy. "No," manhood isn't in Garner's "naming" of them as men; it's not that superficial. It lies in the way they were able to experience their manhood under Garner.