#patsy rembert

first posted in facebook april 1, 2022

winfred rembert -- "inside homer clyde's II" (2007)

"you have to play a role that isn’t really you. it’s like slavery. you have to meet all those demands and keep a sense of yourself as well" ... winfred rembert

"i used to hang out at jack's pool hall you go down there and don't do nothin' at all if you wanted to play some cards there was a game in the back if you wanted a shot of somethin' you went and talked to jack if you had a little money and you was a grade A fool there was a guy down there who used to shoot a little pool" ... jonny lang

[on escaping a white lynch mob]: "it stayed with him his whole life. it never left. he said it was like a movie replaying over and over in his head. and when he'd go to sleep, it would all come back vividly to him in his dreams. and it did follow him to his grave. ... well, i don't know whether [the art] actually helped him that much, but it gave him an outlet to tell the world about what had happened" ... patsy rembert (winfred's wife)

"the billiard table is better than the doctor" ... mark twain