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"The scream I scrumpt at the first 3 chapters of part 2. Im in for trauma, I can feel it." — Feb 20, 2026 08:00AM
"The scream I scrumpt at the first 3 chapters of part 2. Im in for trauma, I can feel it." — Feb 20, 2026 08:00AM
“I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.”
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“If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.”
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“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
― Native Son
― Native Son
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