“As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.”
“There may be two or three or four steps, according to the genius of each, but for every seeing soul there are two absorbing facts, --I and the abyss.”
“Prepare to evacuate soul in five, in four, three, two, one.”
“Since there were three of them, maybe this was a Trinity sort of thing. But two women and a man and none of them white?”
“You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.”
“One word, two lips, three four five fingers form a fist.One corner, two parents, three four five reasons to hide.One child, two eyes, three four seventeen years of fear.A broken broomstick, a pair of wile faces, angry whispers, locks on my door.”