The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
“In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.”
“This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.”