“Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.”
― , said the shotgun to the head.
― , said the shotgun to the head.
“There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts--it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved--but the fat woman's act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others failed to see.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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