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I don’t straighten my hair because I hate it; I straighten it because everyone else hates it for me.
“He’s been operating out of the coast and he doesn’t like fish?” “He’s picky.”
― The Dragon Republic
― The Dragon Republic
“Publishing picks a winner—someone attractive enough, someone cool and young and, oh, we’re all thinking it, let’s just say it, “diverse” enough—and lavishes all its money and resources on them.”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
“Book hoarders,” Moore explained. “Why would you hoard books in a library?” “To prove that you’ve found them,” said Moore. “To prove you know of them. To prove you have proximity to them. But reading them, that’s too much.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“That’s just what translation is, I think. That’s all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Home is about the earth. Whether the earth open up to you. Whether it pull you so close the space between you and it melt and y’all one and it beats like your heart. Same time. Where my family lived… it’s a wall. It’s a hard floor, wood. Then concrete. No opening. No heartbeat. No air.”
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
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