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“She was no longer who she used to be, and she wasn't yet whoever she was becoming.”
― Hello Beautiful
― Hello Beautiful
“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“Somewhere the moon has fallen through a window and broken into thirty pieces of silver.”
― Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
― Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
“But pretending to know everything and acting like you’re better than you know you are puts a terrible strain on a body. It makes you a stumbling stone to your own justice.”
― The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
― The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
“Even then, they understood that American life is unbounded promise and hypocrisy, faith and greed, new spectrums of joy and self-doubt, freedom enabled by enslavement. All of these things at once.”
― Stay True: A Memoir
― Stay True: A Memoir
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