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“History, both the arm holding down the drowning body and the voice claiming the water is holy.”
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
“It's just good hospitality,' Tokue countered.
‘For the customers?'
‘No. The beans.'
‘The beans?'
‘Because they came all the way from Canada. For us.”
― Sweet Bean Paste
‘For the customers?'
‘No. The beans.'
‘The beans?'
‘Because they came all the way from Canada. For us.”
― Sweet Bean Paste
“Your worth is you. Your worth is your presence. Your worth is right there. Your worth isn't something you earn. Your worth isn't something you buy. Your worth isn't something you gain through status on popularity or stomach crunches or having a really chic kitchen. Your worth is your existence. You were born with worth, as all babies are, and that worth doesn't disappear simply because you have grown a little older. You are a human, being.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“If all you ever see is reality, you just want to die. The only way to get over barriers, she said, is to live in the spirit of already being over them.”
― Sweet Bean Paste
― Sweet Bean Paste
“I don’t want to disappoint you, but Toku herself said at the time that she couldn’t actually hear the voices of beans. But if you live in the belief that they can be heard, then someday you might be able to hear them. She said that was the only way for us to live, to be like the poets. That’s what she said. If all you ever see is reality, you just want to die. The only way to get over barriers, she said, is to live in the spirit of already being over them.”
― Sweet Bean Paste
― Sweet Bean Paste
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