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“Just as some cultures have a hundred words for 'snow,' there should be a hundred words in our language for all the ways a black boy can lie awake at night.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“I made myself a promise: Even if it meant becoming a stranger to my loved ones, even if it meant keeping secrets, I would have a life of my own.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“It was if I wanted credit for rescuing my mother from a fire that I had set and couldn’t put out. I wasn’t the man of the house; I was the kid who’d finally lit his first match.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“That's the most intelligent use of three wishes I ever heard of," he told the bird. "You made sure you'd still have something worth wishing for- to get out of the cage.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“The sweetness we deny ourselves because the world is wailing.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
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