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Alena
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“I am trying to place myself in history. I have been looking all my life for history and have yet to find it.”
― South and West: From a Notebook
― South and West: From a Notebook
“I think I am starting to vanish slowly from head to toe. There are ten different ways to say sunset. The bartender says my face is wearing all of them.”
― The Crown Ain't Worth Much
― The Crown Ain't Worth Much
“Ugly is political.
It is the determiner for who does and does not work;
who does and does not Love;
who does and does not die;
who does and does not eat.”
― Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
It is the determiner for who does and does not work;
who does and does not Love;
who does and does not die;
who does and does not eat.”
― Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
“I only have this one mouth.
I cannot make it into a graveyard for you anymore.
I just learned how to make room under my tongue for the name of someone who loves me.”
― The Crown Ain't Worth Much
I cannot make it into a graveyard for you anymore.
I just learned how to make room under my tongue for the name of someone who loves me.”
― The Crown Ain't Worth Much
“And it may seem now like it’s someone else’s children, but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children.”
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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