“For Arthur Munroe was dead. And on what remained of his chewed and gouged head there was no longer a face.”
― The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
― The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
“I'm so fucking tired of black women always being described by their skin tones! Honey-colored this! Dark-chocolate that! My paternal grandmother was mocha-tinged, café-au-lait, graham-fucking-cracker brown! How come they never describe the white characters in relation to foodstuffs and hot liquids? Why aren't there any yogurt-colored, egg-shell-toned, string-cheese-skinned, low-fat-milk white protagonists in these racist, no-third-act-having books? That's why black literature sucks!”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
“At that moment I knew what the plebs were, much more clearly than when, years earlier, she had asked me. The plebs were us. The plebs were that fight for food and wine, that quarrel over who should be served first and better, that dirty floor on which the waiters clattered back and forth, those increasingly vulgar toasts. The plebs were my mother, who had drunk wine and now was leaning against my father’s shoulder, while he, serious, laughed, his mouth gaping, at the sexual allusions of the metal dealer. They were all laughing, even Lila, with the expression of one who has a role and will play it to the utmost.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“the tables were taken by law students talking about rave parties or 'junior associates', in other words, those things which interest law students”
― La carte et le territoire
― La carte et le territoire
“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”
― Platform
― Platform
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