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"Why were they here? Why had they found us? Because they knew Clifton? Or for the occasion his death gave them to express their protestations, a time and place to come together, to stand touching and sweating and breathing and looking in a common direction? Was either explanation adequate in itself? Did it signify love or politicalized hate? And could politics ever be an expression of love?"

These fellows whose bodies seemed—what had one of my teachers said of me?—"You're like one of these African sculptures, distorted in the interest of a design." Well, what design and whose?

boots. that's my ego boots

end of chapter 8. i somewhat regret spoiling the book for myself. every page i read makes me apprehensive.

end of chapter 2. trueblood's story made my body go cold