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mama in PR
she can't visit Fonny in the Tomb as much

“I remembered, for some reason, something someone had said to me, a long time ago – it might have been Fonny: A fool never says he’s a fool.”

I usually stop reading books because I lose interest. I’m contemplating slowing down this book because of the pleasure of it all. I don’t want this to end. It’s so good finding writers who write with you in mind. Baldwin cared about people who look, think and feel like I do. Black, lower-middle class and poor people in systems not designed for us to thrive.