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“You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many was as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.”
― Daniel Black

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“Conformity makes for excellent camouflage.”
― Amanda Lee Koe

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“The bells and whistles of consumption save them from having to really connect. They can while away hours engaged in some form of opulent activity, seemingly together, yet without exactly being with each other.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Sister Snake

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“Love is not an accomplishment, yet to lack it still somehow feels like failure.”
― Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection

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“The poem is a requiem to the death of black creativity. It is an obituary for the lives of singers, musicians, and poets who dare believe they share the authority to act and think. The beauty of the poem is its juxtapositions: laughter and suffering, song and pain, dancing and dying. Yet this is the black American dilemma- how to live in a nation committed to one's destruction? How to find joy in the midst of terror? How to do art when one has not been deemed human?”
― Daniel Black

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