Michelle Kubilis
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The more I watched her, the more I came to feel that she must be struggling in that cloudy, old lady’s mind of hers with thoughts of her own mother and father—who had probably sold her into slavery when she was a little girl—just as I had
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“I spoke about growing up in an immigrant household and butting heads with my parents, whose lives were so fundamentally different from mine that it made conflict almost inevitable”
― We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
― We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
“Because of the fifty-one previous years of his life, he had a number of complexes. He had a Napoleon complex, a southern complex, a baby-of-the-family complex. He had both a superiority complex and an inferiority complex, and, because he was born on Christmas Day, a Christmas baby complex.”
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
“To my dog Barkley, who came into my life at my most desperate time of need and held on until the moment he knew I would be okay: I hope you’re wagging your tail up there on the Rainbow Bridge. I miss you every day, my boy.”
― We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
― We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
“One time, a few years back, his door bell rang at two in the morning. He got up to see who or what it was. “What do you want? You know what time it is?” There before him was an addict, probably trying to sell him another trinket out of the trash that he didn’t need. “You know it’s two in the morning?” George asked the addict. “Your lights burning,” the addict said. “The lights on your car, Mr. G. I’m sorry, Mr. G., but your lights’re on in your car.” George thanked him. He rushed out to turn off the lights and promised himself he wouldn’t prejudge these people anymore. “I just thank the Lord,” he says, “that, by his grace, it’s not me.”
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
“Our lives here are inexpressibly trivial and momentous at once”
― Orbital
― Orbital
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