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“Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I save and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again.”
―
My life did and does smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I save and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again.”
―
“A man will seek to express his relation to the stars; but when a man's consciousness has been riveted upon obtaining a loaf of bread, that loaf of bread is as important as the stars.”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
“I remembered his older brother, who had died in Sicily, in battle for the free world- he had barely had time to see Sicily before he died and had assuredly never seen the free world.”
― No Name in the Street
― No Name in the Street
“The white race is in its decline. We started downhill in 1492 when Columbus discovered syphilis.”
― Fat City
― Fat City
“...the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience.”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
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