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“America, so frequently, is excited about the stories of black people, but not the black people themselves.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

“His work asks not, as much criticism does, what is happening here, but rather, what does this work mean? What is it doing in the world?”
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“No one decides when the people we love are actually gone. May we all be buried on our own terms.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

“Sometimes, when you know so much of not having, it is easy to imagine those who do have as exceptionally worry-free.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

“Sometimes, that which does not kill you sits heavy over you until all of the things that did not kill you turn into a single counterforce that might. No matter what comes out of a person in these times, the work that we make when we feel like we no longer want to be alive is not the best work if it is also not work that, little by little, is pushing us back toward perhaps staying, even if just for a moment.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
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