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Homegoing
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The need to call this thing “good” and this thing “bad,” this thing “white” and this thing “black,” was an impulse that Effia did not understand. In her village, everything was everything. Everything bore the weight of everything else.
“What’s with you, Bleu? You’ve got school. What I tell you about a nigga that wants to distract you from that?”
― Luxe
― Luxe
“Late nights and early mornings only felt good in love songs.”
― Luxe
― Luxe
“Little did she know, I was coming for that heart, love, marriage, and those chocolate babies.”
― Heart of a Goon
― Heart of a Goon
“I hadn’t been happy, truly happy, in a very long time. It was because I was so tired, too weary from juggling all the cardboard pieces of my life, fighting all the -isms of being Black and female in America. Now, all I wanted to do was take off my boxing gloves and rest.”
― All Her Little Secrets
― All Her Little Secrets
“this idea that the body becomes only what’s needed of the body: worker, child-bearer, mistress. The interchangeability.”
― Honey
― Honey
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