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“She looked like someone who would sing the universe to sleep and bend time itself if it meant achieving her greatest wish.”
― Broken Wish
― Broken Wish
“I'll never again speak to many of the people who loved me into this moment, just as you will never speak to many of the people who loved you into your now. So we raise a glass to them--and hope that perhaps somewhere, they are raising a glass to us.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“Sometimes you need people to be perfect and they can’t be and you hate them forever for not being even though it isn’t their fault and it’s not yours either. You just needed something they didn’t have in them to give you.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“This strength of feeling over classic stories being ruined wasn't around when the Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist was remade into a film in which the lead character was cast in the image of a cartoon cat.”
― Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
― Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
“We were coloreds or Negroes, and to call someone black was to invite a fistfight. But Malcolm remade the menace inherent in that name into something mystical--Black Power; Black Is Beautiful; It's a black thing, you wouldn't understand.”
― We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
― We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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