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“I am all mouth, with teeth like kindling.
Do not kiss me before you know this.
I am all hunger, all restraint and poised bones, coiled spine, patient spring.”
― What We Buried
Do not kiss me before you know this.
I am all hunger, all restraint and poised bones, coiled spine, patient spring.”
― What We Buried
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“Beauty is as close to terror
as we can well endure.
Angels would not condescend
to damn our meagre souls.
That is why they awe
and why they terrify us so.
Every angel is terrible!”
― The Duino Elegies
as we can well endure.
Angels would not condescend
to damn our meagre souls.
That is why they awe
and why they terrify us so.
Every angel is terrible!”
― The Duino Elegies
“I was— am— terrified of being owned. By a god or a man or a child or a place. By anyone or anything but myself.”
― Atypical Cells of Undetermined Significance
― Atypical Cells of Undetermined Significance
“When I was really small I thought I’d do anything to change whatever was wrong with me. Now I didn’t want to change, I just wanted people to stop being mad at me all the time.”
― Stone Butch Blues
― Stone Butch Blues
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