“So why you got us here, Socrates?” Mustafa asked.[…] “We are here because the world…the whole damn world is messed up. “ Socrates said simply to that point. “An’all we do every day is shut our eyes hopin’ that it’ll get bettah while we ain’t lookin’.”[…] “Then it came to me that I was passin’a change by, that I could help Fred and make this a place where the good food an’good company an’where the only question is what can I do?”.

The Right Mistake. Walter Mosley (2008) p. 40-41