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"350 pages to the end and I have to stop again cuz HOLY SMOKES book 4 isn’t easy to read y’all. At first I thought, yeah, I can handle this, not too graphic. But no no no, it’s too much! Resuming in a bit though cuz I love this book so much." May 29, 2019 03:33PM

 
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Kiese Laymon
“After reading Bambara, I wondered for the first time how great an American sentence, paragraph, or book could be if it wasn't, at least partially, written to and for black Americans in the Deep South.”
Kiese Laymon, Heavy

Anna Burns
“She meant depressions, for da had had them: big, massive, scudding, whopping, black-cloud, infectious, crow, raven, jackdaw, coffin-upon-coffin, catacomb-upon-catacomb, skeletons-upon-skulls-upon-bones crawling along the ground to the grave type of depressions.”
Anna Burns, Milkman

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
“For the original transgression of this land was not slavery. It was greed, and it could not be contained. More white men would come and begin to covet. And they would drag along the Africans they had enslaved. The white men would sow their misery among those who shook their chains. These white men would whip and work and demean these Africans. They would sell their children and split up families. And these white men brought by Oglethorpe, these men who had been oppressed in their own land by their own king, forgot the misery that they had left behind, the poverty, the uncertainty. And they resurrected this misery and passed it on to the Africans.”
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Dorthe Nors
“Within her there seems to be a rattling; from little stones, from stalks, from days when it never quits. Inside her the sky empties itself in slow, unresolving fashion, and there isn’t anything worth naming in the fridge.”
Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink

Kiese Laymon
“This summer, it took one final conversation with Grandmama for me to understand that no one in our family and very few folk in this nation has any desire to reckon with the weight of where we've been. Which means no one in our family and very few folk in this nation wants to be free.”
Kiese Laymon, Heavy

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