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“Yes,” she answered. “I grew up thinking monsters could be slain.” “Ah,” he said. “And I grew up thinking people were the monsters.”
“Maybe it’s like one of those “heartwarming” race movies where a white person with suspect ideas and a black person become friends and they both learn a lesson about difference except nothing that’s learned is new to the black person, who was just going about their black business when this whole thing started. If you see it that way, please feel free to option this story for an Oscar-winning Hollywood movie.”
― Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
― Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
“...you will not live to see a just world. But you will live to see acts of justice.”
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“I laugh and remember that I’ll be dead before dystopia really starts to take hold.”
― Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
― Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
“It might be that saving the world is idiotically simple. Maybe we just need to connect and care for one another.”
― A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
― A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“You have fallen into the homoerotic queer girl friendship. It’s all cute at first, and then you catch feelings, and it’s impossible to tell if the joke flirting is actual flirting and if the platonic cuddling is romantic cuddling, and next thing you know, three years have gone by, and you’re obsessed with her, and you haven’t done anything about it because you’re too terrified to fuck up the friendship by guessing it wrong, so instead you send each other horny plausible deniability love letters until you’re both dead.”
― One Last Stop
― One Last Stop
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