A biography for Allan Dare Pearcehasn’t been written yet.
“My pa maintained that there are three important parts to a man. You got the heart, the brain, and the python.”
“To the extent a man can control chaos, he should put his testicles on the line and do so, but when a man can't, he should just step aside, or someone in the lineup behind him is gonna bite his ass.”
“Racism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesn't appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff?”
“Are we praying?" "If you have to ask, you probably aren't.”
“My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.”
“People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.”
“He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.”
“Some days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days you didn't bother praying, knowing there was no sense to anything.”
“Kids are important. The most important thing.”
“These young people are going to change the world.”
“Come meet my dog.""What's the dog's name?""Justice.""Nice touch for a judge. A dog named Justice.”
“Family is more important than anything.”
“Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That's one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man.”