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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. —THOMAS JEFFERSON
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“the betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“The act of writing is a way to create another world in language, a dwelling place for the psyche wherein the chaos of the external world is transformed, shaped into a made thing, and ordered. It is an act of reclamation. And resistance: the soul sings for justice and the song is poetry.”
― The House of Being
― The House of Being
“I know now that if we choose to keep any part of what is behind us, we must take all of it, hold each moment up to the light like a photograph.”
― Bellocq's Ophelia
― Bellocq's Ophelia
“Writing is a way of creating order out of chaos, of taking charge of one's own story, being the sovereign of the self by pushing back against received knowledge and guarding the sanctity of the dwelling place of the imagination, that place of first permission.”
― The House of Being
― The House of Being
“Jim Crow wasn't nothing but slavery, wrapped up in a nice little gift card." -Rev. John Kennard”
― Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
― Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
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