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Jen R. is on page 38 of 320 of A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
I think about the small but important distance between gospel as popular music and gospel as a vehicle for salvation: how it is possible to take in the music without much concern for salvation, but still be carried off to a place that feels holy.
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A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

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Jen R. is on page 30 of 320 of A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
because I think what Michael meant when he sang “Don’t stop 'til you get enough" is that a river must be built out of what the dancing can offer so that we might float once again off grief's island.
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A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

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Jen R. is on page 28 of 320 of A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
(On Black funerals) … It is continuing in the tradition of Black Americans attempting to protect and enlarge their own narratives. A tradition that has been present since being forced into America, knowing that there were stories and history and lives to be honored beyond this place.
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A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

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Jen R. is on page 21 of 320 of A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
I have claimed the fantasy of kinship with so many of you, my dear cousins from another life. I have watched your leather and your pearls spin down the rhythmic labyrinth of that immaculate nighttime. … Every time I take to a dance floor and can't keep up, I am looking back and praying you all will open up a path with some unbreakable light at the end.
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A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

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Jen R. is on page 12 of 320 of A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
It occurs to me now that this was the real joy of dancing: to enter a world unlike the one you find yourself burdened with, and mine your body toward nothing but a prayer that time might slow down.
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A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

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Jen R. is on page 10 of 320 of A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
& so it is safe to say that I only danced along the slick surface of my basement floor with the moon out & all the lights in the house out & the television playing hits & this wasn't exactly practicing dance moves as much as it was learning the different directions my limbs could flail in & there is no church like the church of unchained arms being thrown in every direction in the silence of a sleeping home (3)
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A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

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Jen R. is 70% done with Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
[So and so] and her colleagues use the term beam gleam (also known as the attachment gaze) to refer to the nonverbal expression of warmth, kindness and love that radiates from our eyes, letting our partners know that they are special to us.
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Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy


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Jen R. is on page 29 of 31 of Bloodchild
[it relaxed me], so that I could remember the rifle in my hands and my feelings of fear and revulsion, anger and despair. I could remember the feelings without reviving them. I could talk about them.
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Bloodchild

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Jen R. is on page 25 of 31 of Bloodchild
"If we're not your animals, if these are adult things, accept the risk. There is risk, Gatoi, in dealing with a partner."
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Bloodchild


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Jen R. is on page 10 of 31 of Bloodchild
It was an honor, my mother said, that such a person had chosen to come into the family. My mother was at her most formal and severe when she was lying.
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Bloodchild

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Jen R. is on page 54 of 331 of My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
I learned a skill at which I later excelled. I held back my despair, … I felt a violent pain, but I sensed that the pain of quarreling with her would be even stronger. I was as if strangled by two agonies, one already happening, the loss of the doll, and one possible, the loss of Lila.
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My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)







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Jen R. is on page 159 of 239 of Crying in H Mart
it was important to me that her ashes be buried in the ground. I wanted to be able to bring flowers and have somewhere to put them. I wanted a place where I could fall against the earth, collapse on the ground, and in the various seasons weep in the grass and dirt,
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Crying in H Mart

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Jen R. is on page 158 of 239 of Crying in H Mart
To be a loving mother was to be known for a service, but to be a lovely mother was to possess a charm all your own.
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Crying in H Mart

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Jen R. is on page 151 of 239 of Crying in H Mart
my father was unabashedly panicked, openly scared in a way I wished he would keep from me. He was desperate to escape this excruciating ache by any means, and liable to leave me behind.
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Crying in H Mart

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Jen R. is on page 78 of 239 of Crying in H Mart
a couple of nocturnal teens bonded together by a deep, inexplicable loneliness and AOL instant messenger.
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Crying in H Mart

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Jen R. is 90% done with Western Lane
To someone watching it would seem that I was out of my depth, bewildered, slow getting to the T, and slow to set off, but more often than not I got to the ball
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Western Lane

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Jen R. is 75% done with Western Lane
In the kitchen he and I were separate from my sisters and [aunt and uncle] and it was because I was leaving him.
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Western Lane

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Jen R. is on page 195 of 204 of Ghostroots: Stories
the embroidered patterns on the third masquerade's skirt seemed to him like complete stories in a secret language known only to him, the silver threads glinting alive in the night.
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Ghostroots: Stories

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Jen R. is on page 126 of 204 of Ghostroots: Stories
I never made smoothies before I entered this house. But I have learned many new things: like which buttons to press on the washing machine and how to iron with spray starch and how to pretend I am not sad or tired, even after fifteen hours of running after Baby.
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Ghostroots: Stories


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Jen R. is 50% done with Summer Girls
stressful times call for HEA fluff
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Summer Girls

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