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“She was one of the few things abhorrent to him that he could touch and therefore hurt. He poured out on her the sum of all his inarticulate fury and aborted desires. Hating her, he could leave himself intact.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“the fact that most people live and die where they were born, or they leave home and live somewhere else for decades but come back to pass away, like migrating birds”
― Ducks, Newburyport
― Ducks, Newburyport
“I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.”
― Do Not Say We Have Nothing
― Do Not Say We Have Nothing
“That's the difference between most oppressed peoples of the world and American blacks. They vow never to forget, and we want everything expunged from our record, sealed and filed away for eternity.”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
“Light from the tanks found him, as if they could collect all the irreconcilable parts of his life. No matter how many lights they shone, they could never take away the darkness. Daylight was blinding, but in the dark he still existed. What did they see, he wondered, his hands still open. Of all the people he had loved and who had loved him, of all the things that he had witnessed, lived and hoped for, of all the music he had created, how much was it possible to see?”
― Do Not Say We Have Nothing
― Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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