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Jasmine
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Fenty later recalled Jay-Z saying, ‘There’s only two ways out. Out the door’ ”—if she signed the contract—“ ‘or through this window’ ” if she didn’t. Was that a threat? “It was very flattering.” She left through the door.
“don’t fret, we don’t die. they can’t kill the boy on your shirt again.”
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
“It is quite relaxing being humble, because it means you can stop feeling pressured to have a view about everything, and stop feeling you must be ready to defend your views all the time.”
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
“Being black can get you killed.
Being gay can get you killed.
Being a black gay boy is a death wish.
And one day, if you’re lucky, your life and death will become some artist’s new “project.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
Being gay can get you killed.
Being a black gay boy is a death wish.
And one day, if you’re lucky, your life and death will become some artist’s new “project.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“I was proud of my exhaustion, as if the darkness circling my eyes was proof of my adulthood. Proof that I could hold my own, no longer just a son or grandson but an I.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“Without a doubt, it was a book for when the birds had flown south, the wood was stacked by the fireplace, and the fields were white with snow; that is, for when one had no desire to venture out and one’s friends had no desire to venture in.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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