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I’m not loving this book, it feels wildly disconnected and a bit … lazy and disconnected. There are two poems about how women shouldn’t fight each other followed by a poem about how Kim K isn’t a good role model and shouldn’t sexually objectify herself on social media. This followed two poems where Rupi described some sexual encounters one of which sounded less than consensual but was romanticized. ?????

"He brought his crushed velvet, jitterbug demeanor to the gray, humorless bureaucracy of a government hospital."

"The parents had come from the Old Country, had been happy to have made it out alive and make a few dollars an hour. What did they know of the frustration of the young people who had grown up in the mirage of equality but a whole different reality, in a densely packed world of drugs and gangs and disorder, with promises that seemed to have turned to dust?

"Theirs is a kind of living testimony that migrations fed by the human heart do not begin and end as neatly as statisticians might like. The Great Migration in particular was not a seasonal, contained, or singular event. It was a statistically measurable demographic phenomenon marked by unabated outflows of black emigres that lasted roughly from 1915 to 1975.

"The underground Railroad spirited hundreds of slaves out of the South and as far north as Canada before the Civil War. Later, in 1879, Bejamin "Pap" Singleton...led a pilgrimage of six thousand ex-slaves, known as Exodusters, from the banks of the Mississippi River onto the free soil of Kansas"

"Until the 1943 uprising in Detroit, most riots in the United states, from the 1863 Draft Riots in New York to the riots in Tulsa in 1921...had been white attacks on colored (sic) people, often resulting in the burning of entire colored sections or towns. This was the first major riot in which blacks fought back as earnestly as the whites."

"Until the 1943 uprising in Detroit, most riots in the United states, from the 1863 Draft Riots in New York to the riots in Tulsa in 1921...had been white attacks on colored (sic) people, often resulting in the burning of entire colored sections or towns. This was the first major riot in which blacks fought back as earnestly as the whites."

“Jim Crow was said to be the name of either the stable hand or his owner living in KY or OH. Rice became a national sensation impersonating a crippled black man, but died penniless in 1860 of a paralytic condition that limited his speech and movement by the end of his life.”

Ugh. This book is a struggle to get through and now I have to return it. I'll come back to it soon.