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My husband smiled at me, lowering his raised fist, which had indeed been ready to knock one more fucking time. “There she is.” I hated that face. I hated those words.
THERE SHE IS
“The evening news never spares us. Tune in and we
hear: if you’re a boy and you’re black, you live
with a target on your back. We each take it in and
shiver, one sharp-bladed question hanging overhead: how
long do I get to walk this earth? The smell of death is too intense,
and so we bury the thought, because the future is
ours, right? We get to choose? Well, we choose life.”
― One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
hear: if you’re a boy and you’re black, you live
with a target on your back. We each take it in and
shiver, one sharp-bladed question hanging overhead: how
long do I get to walk this earth? The smell of death is too intense,
and so we bury the thought, because the future is
ours, right? We get to choose? Well, we choose life.”
― One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
“Hard to explain tidals
to one who’s never gotten her feet wet,”
― One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
to one who’s never gotten her feet wet,”
― One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
“Why look to writers of the Harlem Renaissance for wisdom and strength in difficult times? Because these writers, so recently removed from slavery and a Jim Crow South, survived much. They still have much to teach us regarding toughness, survival, and a positive attitude.”
― One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
― One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
“Thrash didn’t move, didn’t breath.”
― Fat Witch Summer
― Fat Witch Summer
“It occurs to me to dwell on what a microcosm we are of the war as a whole, you and I. The physics of us. An action and an equal and opposite reaction. My viny-hivey elfworld, as you say, versus your techy-mechy dystopia. We both know it’s nothing so simple, any more than a letter’s reply is its opposite. But which egg preceded what platypus? The ends don’t always resemble our means.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
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