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"... and I think
of that feeling when you're really full, or life is full
and you can't think of anything else that would fit in it,
but then even more sky comes and more days
and there is so much to remember and swallow.
(Someplace Like Montana)" — 21 hours, 33 min ago
"... and I think
of that feeling when you're really full, or life is full
and you can't think of anything else that would fit in it,
but then even more sky comes and more days
and there is so much to remember and swallow.
(Someplace Like Montana)" — 21 hours, 33 min ago
“His goodness was found ... not in the moral pilgrimage that reached its destination point, but in the love ethic by which he journeyed life's highways.”
― Strenghth to Love
― Strenghth to Love
“Laugh all you want, but I think learning to love yourself in a country where you're told that you're the plague on the economy, that you're nothing but a prisoner in the making, that you life can be taken away from you at any moment and there's nothing you can do about it - learning to love yourself in the middle of all that? Hell, that's a goddamn miracle.”
― Hell of a Book
― Hell of a Book
“Lastly, a message to the Black boy that was: You are beautiful. Be kind to yourself, even when this country is not.”
― Hell of a Book
― Hell of a Book
“The South is America’s longest running crime scene.”
― Hell of a Book
― Hell of a Book
“I’m not sure Black people can be happy in this world. There’s just too much of a backstory of sadness that’s always clawing at their heels. And no matter how hard you try to outrun it, life always comes through with those reminders letting you know that, more than anything, you’re just a part of an exploited people and a denied destiny and all you can do is hate your past and, by proxy, hate yourself”
― Hell of a Book
― Hell of a Book
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