“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
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“I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.”
― Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
― Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
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