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Toni Morrison
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
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Percival Everett
“How strange a world, how strange an existence, that one’s equal must argue for one’s equality, that one’s equal must hold a station that allows airing of that argument, that one cannot make that argument for oneself, that premises of said argument must be vetted by those equals who do not agree.”
Percival Everett, James

James Baldwin
“Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it”
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