Regarding the book, The Sound and The Fury
Quotations of Importance, puzzle pieces revealing the truth
Quotation #9
page 211
"They come into white people's lives like that in sudden sharp black trickles that isolate white facts for an instant in unarguable truth like under a microscope; the rest of the time just voices that laugh when you see nothing to laugh at, tears when no reason for tears."
Besides just characterizing Quentin, this also proves a different insight on racial prejudice. To a black slave owner, or I guess they weren't slaves in 1910, or a person with black servants, that's all they were. They would say something that was right once in a while, but the rest of the time, they are mysteries and don't make sense. The mentality may also be that others who are not like you only capture few occasional truths about you, or a race or other stereotyped groups. Comedians do this all the time. They find an unarguable truth and play on it. People just don't get mad at comedians most of the time because they make people laugh. It's not always okay for normal people to do this.
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