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“TRY THIS: DON’T stop beginning. Begin and begin and begin. Begin endlessly—that is, without the taint of even eventual ending. Don’t make the mistake of muddling into middle. Remain pristine and preliminary until the end is inconceivable: until beginning becomes being and being becomes enduring. Eternity isn’t just a demand of the market but also a demand of the heart.”
― All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
― All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
“I turned on the light, got up, and looked outside. The street under the streetlights. Even the street is just an idea: the impulse to go somewhere, away from those who have hurt you, or closer to those who love you.”
― Blue Hunger
― Blue Hunger
“She'd had her own childhood of moments just like this. She too had parents who were over-educated and underpaid - it was the worst combination. They had raised her and her sister in a ghetto of artists and poets, guaranteeing that they would be alienated from rich children and poor children alike, thanks to a cultural and political vocabulary that suggest class and privilege without actual class and privilege - gauche caviar without the actual caviar.”
― Colored Television
― Colored Television
“What if, instead of being diagnosed—being called mentally ill—what if I had been able to receive care for its own sake. To be in distress, to ask for care, to receive it. What if there were space in this world for care.”
― Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
― Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
“Jane's father once told her that white people believed, deep in their hearts, that Black people would all choose to become white if they could. But Black people didn't want to be white, he had told her. They only wanted to have what white people had. He had said race was always about money, and money was always about race. That's what white people didn't understand. Black people wanted only a big yellow Victorian on the hill, not to be the white people who lived there.”
― Colored Television
― Colored Television
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