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As she sees it, unimpeded access to her body is a small price to pay for the numerous liberties and powers she is permitted. She has had four children already; she intends to have more, as many as her husband will plant within her. A large
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“But I know about suffering; if that helps. I know that it ends. I ain’t going to tell you no lies, like it always ends for the better. Sometimes it ends for the worse. You can suffer so bad that you can be driven to a place where you can’t ever suffer again: and that’s worse.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“People make you pay for the way you look, which is also the way you think you look, and what time writes is a record of that collision.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“For, you see, he had found his center, his own center, inside him: and it showed. He wasn’t anybody’s nigger. And that’s a crime, in this fucking free country. You’re suppose to be somebody’s nigger. And if you’re nobody’s nigger, you’re a bad nigger: and that’s what the cops decided when Fonny moved downtown.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“the key to illusion is complicity. The world sees what it wishes to see: it does not wish to see who, or what, or why you are.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“Time could not be bought. The only coin time accepted was life.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
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