The riddle of racist intimacy in the Old South--

"You are not up here in this bed with me, where through no fault nor willing of your own you should be, and you are not down here on this pallet floor with me, where through no fault nor willing of your own you must and will be, not through any fault or willing of our own who would not what we cannot." 

-- William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)