Girls want marvelous adventures just as much as boys do.

—L. FRANK BAUM, AUTHOR OF THE WIZARD OF OZ

“I reckon that I is a hundred and three or a hundred and four years old. I was a woman grown at the end of the war.

“I ain’t had no daddy ’cause queens don’t marry, and my mammy, Junny, was a queen in Africa. They kidnaps her and steals her away from her throne and fetches her here to Wake County in slTribuavery.”

—ANN PARKER, AGE 103 (?) WHEN INTERVIEWED IN THE WAKE COUNTY HOME, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, BY MARY A. HICKS

The option of a white man’s republic ended at Appomattox.

—DANIEL FRIED, AMERICA’S MOST SENIOR DIPLOMAT, RETIREMENT SPEECH, 2017