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Why is the calm of this country always the result of black people deciding not to get angry? To turn the other cheek? James said to us that to be a Negro in America and to be relatively conscious is to be in a constant state of rage. And
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“We are all stardust and stories.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“I've seen enough to know that you can be a human with a mountain of resources and you can be a human with nothing, and you can be a monster either way. Everywhere, and especially at both extremes, you can find monsters. It's at the extremes that people are most scared...”
― The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
― The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
“The truth is, the harder we are, the easier we shatter. It takes some softness to absorb life’s blows.”
― The Unknown Beloved
― The Unknown Beloved
“the real reason he’d keep running into monsters was because he was black, and when you’re black in America, there’s always a monster. Sometimes it’s Lovecraftian Elder Gods; sometimes it’s the police, or the Klan, or the Registrar of Voters.”
― Lovecraft Country
― Lovecraft Country
“Families are overenthusiastic tattoo artists. You make a tiny mistake just one time, and it’s like they immediately ink that thing onto you forever.”
― Fly on the Wall
― Fly on the Wall
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