If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

  • -- John Shelton Reed 约翰·西尔顿·里德

如果你想把南方定义为一个贫穷的、种族关系恶劣的农村地区,那么南方只存在于地理上的零星地带,而大多数南方人已经不住在那里了。

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I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

我认为这一切的背后有一种至高无上的力量,一种智慧。看看自然界所有的本能,包括动物和植物,它们生存的独特方式。如果你割伤了自己,你就不用想了。

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

我们让自己的无知占据上风,让自己认为我们可以独自生存,独自生活在小块土地上,独自生活在群体中,独自生活在种族中,甚至独自生活在性别中。