“She says she is aware of the irony of being a medical examiner who smokes, but that for all the blackened lungs she's seen, it is more disturbing to open the chest cavity of a veteran and find it is pristine.”
― Luster
― Luster
“The new pop song
is about getting real:
"You had a bad day."
The camera don't lie.
But they're lying
to you
about the camera.”
― Versed
is about getting real:
"You had a bad day."
The camera don't lie.
But they're lying
to you
about the camera.”
― Versed
“This is my home, Akila says, and I know that the moment between when a black boy is upright and capable of speech and when he is prostrate in his own blood is almost imperceptible,”
― Luster
― Luster
“They experimented on the poor and if that worked they used the treatment on the rich. And if it didn't work, there would still be more poor people left over to experiment upon.”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
“God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be born just to die.”
― Luster
― Luster
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