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when my brothers & i asked for video games, the church gave us books. we were too poor to want what we wanted.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
“And I saw that what divided me from the world was not anything intrinsic to us but the actual injury done by people intent on naming us, intent on believing that what they have named us matters more than anything we could ever actually do. In America, the injury is not in being born with darker skin, with fuller lips, with a broader nose, but in everything that happens after.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

Rachel Cohen
“Baldwin told the story again and again of standing on Broadway and being told by Delaney to look down. Delaney asked him what he saw, and Baldwin said a puddle. Delaney said, 'Look again,' and then Baldwin saw the reflections of the buildings, distorted and radiant in the oil on the puddle. He taught me to see, Baldwin said, and that 'what one cannot or will not see, says something about you.”
Rachel Cohen, A Chance Meeting : Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967

Carolyn Forché
“You are always asking me why the people don’t do something, why they put up with this brutality, why they don’t rise up against it, this and that. Okay. You’re exhausted, you’re shocked, you’re sick to your stomach, and you feel dirty. These things are what people feel every day here—and you expect them to get themselves organized? You expect them to fight back? Could you fight back at this moment?”
Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

Robert Lowell
“We wished our two souls
might return like gulls
to the rock. In the end,
the water was too cold for us.”
Robert Lowell

Mark Twain
“...the quality of certain scraps of verse which take hold of us and stay in our memories, we do not understand why, at first: all the words being the right words, none of them is conspicuous, and so they all seem inconspicuous, therefore we wonder what it is about them that makes their message take hold.”
Mark Twain

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