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“My lanterns. Your hands wick at the bronzed lamp of my breast. Strike me to spark— tremble me to awe. Into your lap let me lay my heavy horns”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
― Postcolonial Love Poem
“But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw”
― Things Fall Apart
― Things Fall Apart
“In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
and ate of it.
I said, “Is it good friend?”
“It is bitter-bitter,” He answered;
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart”
―
I saw a creature, naked, bestial
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
and ate of it.
I said, “Is it good friend?”
“It is bitter-bitter,” He answered;
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart”
―
“The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism-the founding
of a state based on the ideology of white supremacy, the widespread practice of
African slavery, and a policy of genocide and land theft”
― An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
of a state based on the ideology of white supremacy, the widespread practice of
African slavery, and a policy of genocide and land theft”
― An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
“The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power, but in his own right”
― Song of Myself
― Song of Myself
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