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I didn’t want to ruin the mood by making either of us think too deeply about our own internalized racism.
“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
“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
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