“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― Of Mice and Men
― Of Mice and Men
“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“That’s the problem with history, we like to think it’s a book—that we can turn the page and move the fuck on. But history isn’t the paper it’s printed on. It’s memory, and memory is time, emotions, and song. History is the things that stay with you.”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
“because I knew that racist Negro Archetypes, like Bebe’s Kids, don’t die. They multiply.”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
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