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"350 pages to the end and I have to stop again cuz HOLY SMOKES book 4 isn’t easy to read y’all. At first I thought, yeah, I can handle this, not too graphic. But no no no, it’s too much! Resuming in a bit though cuz I love this book so much." — May 29, 2019 03:33PM
"350 pages to the end and I have to stop again cuz HOLY SMOKES book 4 isn’t easy to read y’all. At first I thought, yeah, I can handle this, not too graphic. But no no no, it’s too much! Resuming in a bit though cuz I love this book so much." — May 29, 2019 03:33PM
“I knew, truth be told, that a present American man would likely teach me how to be a present American man. and I couldn't imagine how those teachings would have made me healthier or more generous.”
― Heavy
― Heavy
“She meant depressions, for da had had them: big, massive, scudding, whopping, black-cloud, infectious, crow, raven, jackdaw, coffin-upon-coffin, catacomb-upon-catacomb, skeletons-upon-skulls-upon-bones crawling along the ground to the grave type of depressions.”
― Milkman
― Milkman
“After reading Bambara, I wondered for the first time how great an American sentence, paragraph, or book could be if it wasn't, at least partially, written to and for black Americans in the Deep South.”
― Heavy
― Heavy
“Within her there seems to be a rattling; from little stones, from stalks, from days when it never quits. Inside her the sky empties itself in slow, unresolving fashion, and there isn’t anything worth naming in the fridge.”
― Spejl, skulder, blink
― Spejl, skulder, blink
“This summer, it took one final conversation with Grandmama for me to understand that no one in our family and very few folk in this nation has any desire to reckon with the weight of where we've been. Which means no one in our family and very few folk in this nation wants to be free.”
― Heavy
― Heavy
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