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Fannie Lou Hamer spoke openly about their guns: “I keep a shotgun in every corner of my bedroom and the first cracker even look like he wants to throw some dynamite on my porch won’t write his mama again.”
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― Kin
― Kin
“Henry believed that anyone paying attention to the world around them would inevitably become interested in the Romans—or at least in the fall of the Roman Empire. For who could doubt that we live in a time which resembles theirs? That we are the Romans”
― On the Calculation of Volume III
― On the Calculation of Volume III
“in a book you can turn the pages back”
― The Remembered Soldier
― The Remembered Soldier
“I’m fine,” I said. “It was all a long time ago.” But Carmen didn’t give that lie even the courtesy of a nod. “When you lose your mama”
― Kin
― Kin
“It’s not vulgar like when you say someone is a motherfucker—letting everyone know you are angry”
― Kin
― Kin
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