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“When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure.”
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
“It occurs to me now that this was the real joy of dancing: to enter a world unlike the one you find yourself burdened with, and move your body toward nothing but a prayer that time might slow down.”
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
“I have fallen so in love with the leaves, who do the duty of making their death beautiful, bursting from otherwise unremarkable branches before the cold browns them and grinds them to dust.”
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
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“If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave.”
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
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