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“Not being violent enough could cost me my body. Being too violent could cost me my body. We could not get out.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Poetry was the processing of my thoughts until the slag of justification fell away and I was left with the cold steel truths of life.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Disembodiment is a kind of terrorism, and the threat of it alters the orbit of all our lives and, like terrorism, this distortion is intentional.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“And for so long I have wanted to escape into the Dream, to fold my country over my head like a blanket. But this has never been an option because the Dream rests on our backs, the bedding made from our bodies.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
Leena’s 2025 Year in Books
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