“Who rides so late through the night and wind?It's the father with his child; J.W. Goethe, Erlkönig/Erlking”

“That night, [Black Dog] lay beside Henry, and he stroked her sharp shoulder blades and scratched behind her ears. He did this late into the night as he listened to the low and terrible moans that swept through the hallways of the house and that were not from the lonely wind but from his lonely mother, who had lost her oldest child and would never have him back again.”

“He was the child of a father who was not his father; but also the child of a time which damaged reality so badly that nobody ever managed to put it together again;”

“J.W. and Roy didn’t just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.”

“A father must take credit for his child, but never a child for his father.”

“Rides the Wind loved to tell stories and delighted in the myriad questions asked by his growing son.He shared legends that had been handed down through generations of Lakota, skillfully weaving God into them so that even Jesse and Old One listened, fascinated. A favorite became the story of a hunter who fell onto a cliff and escaped by tying himself to two grown eagles and flying off.Two Mothers' eyes would grow wide as Rides the Wind built up to the dramatic moment when the hunter stepped off the cliff with only the power of the eagles to save him."But it was not the power of the eagles that saved him," Rides the Wind would remind his son. "It was God who gave the eagles strength.”