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I am not here to do the work; I am here to live into the work, something that requires a constant interrogation of my own motives and actions in relationship with white supremacy.
“White folks kill you if you want too much, kill you if you want too little.” Willie Lee shook his head, packing tobacco into his pipe. “You gotta follow they rules but they change ’em when they feel. Devilish, you ask me.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“Negroes always love our hometowns,” he said. “Even though we’re always from the worst places. Only white folks got the freedom to hate home.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“You could never quite get used to loneliness; every time she thought she had, she sank further into it.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“But even here, where nobody married dark, you were still colored and that meant that white men could kill you for refusing to die. The Vignes twins were reminders of this, tiny girls in funeral dresses who grew up without a daddy because white men decided that it would be so.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
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