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“…just as a life of mere survival is insufficient for the flourishing of the spirit, the spirit is an insufficient support for human life if it lacks a full expression of its essence.”

writing about meeting with your high school lover and telling his four year old son “you could’ve been my child” could’ve shadowed over all the profound points made in the “Lulls” essay but i didn’t allow it

“Each story or poem has a formula, usually two-thirds ‘hate whitey’s guts’ and one third ‘I am black, beautiful, strong, and almost always right.’”

she funny af😭😭😭😭😭😭

“We are hungry for a life that turns us on; we yearn for a knowledge of living that will save us from our innocuous lives that resemble death. We look for signs in every strange event; we search for heroes in every unknown face.”