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Milkman
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But by now, by age eighteen, ‘smiling, friendly and obliging’ always had me straight on the alert.
“Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt.”
― Salt Slow
― Salt Slow
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”
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“You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.”
― Practicalities
― Practicalities
“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
2022 ONTD Reading Challenge
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Irene.’s 2025 Year in Books
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