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“These white men scared me. They scared me because they weren’t invested in my being afraid of them.” 160

“Folks be funny lak dat. Dey takes the lies dey want and throws away the truths dat scares ‘em.” 126

“Can we really imagine how it must feel to be so afraid of what lies behind you that you are prepared to throw yourself headlong into an unknown that is going to be filled with danger and loneliness? Leaving behind your family and your culture and seeking something better in a land where you are not welcome and you are not understood?”

“Humans are a fractured, limping, adolescent species…They have not moved beyond introspecies chaos.”

P51–“the economics of valuing vulnerable lives will never balance toward profit.”

“He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness.” (244)