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“Be proud of your place in the cosmos. It is so small. And yet it is.”
― The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe
― The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe
“Looking back, it’s embarrassing to recognize the degree to which my intellectual curiosity those first two years of college paralleled the interests of various women I was attempting to get to know: Marx and Marcuse so I had something to say to the long-legged socialist who lived in my dorm; Fanon and Gwendolyn Brooks for the smooth-skinned sociology major who never gave me a second look; Foucault and Woolf for the ethereal bisexual who wore mostly black. As a strategy for picking up girls, my pseudo-intellectualism proved mostly worthless; I found myself in a series of affectionate but chaste friendships.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is: Are we living a life that is worth the harm?”
― The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe
― The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe
“History, both the arm holding down the drowning body and the voice claiming the water is holy.”
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
“It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays
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