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“Lilith have a quilt on her back, but there be a bigger quilt, a patchwork of negro bones that reach from the Africa to the West Indies.”
― The Book of Night Women
― The Book of Night Women
“But the history of most blacks in this country—the history of slavery, Reconstruction, systematic disenfranchisement, and the civil rights movement—was not my history. My history was one of emigration, adaptation, and a different flavor of exile. I was only a latter-day sharer in the sorrow and the glory of the African American experience.”
― Known and Strange Things: Essays
― Known and Strange Things: Essays
“But sometime, a negro get tired of white man stomping so he grab the foot, twist and break it. Sometime a negro say, Enough done be enough now.”
― The Book of Night Women
― The Book of Night Women
“How on earth did this happen to the reader in chief? What became of literature’s vaunted power to inspire empathy? (A power that we simultaneously disavow and perpetually cite.)”
― Known and Strange Things: Essays
― Known and Strange Things: Essays
“NOT ALL VIOLENCE is hot. There’s cold violence, too, which takes its time and finally gets its way. Children going to school and coming home are exposed to it. Fathers and mothers listen to politicians on television calling for their extermination. Grandmothers have no expectation that even their aged bodies are safe: any young man may lay a hand on them with no consequence. The police could arrive at night and drag a family out into the street. Putting a people into deep uncertainty about the fundamentals of life, over years and decades, is a form of cold violence.”
― Known and Strange Things: Essays
― Known and Strange Things: Essays
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