“When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.”
“I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.”
“When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you... when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're blue, when you die you're green and you dare call me colored”
“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.”
“It must be that I am not made to be a dead man, but these places and this discussion seem like a dream, and not a dream dreamed by me but by someone else still to be born.”