“My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“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
“So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promise of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
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