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“Spiritual but not religious,” Zachary clarifies. He doesn’t say what he is thinking, which is that his church is held-breath story listening and late-night-concert ear-ringing rapture and perfect-boss fight-button pressing. That his
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“History, both the arm holding down the drowning body and the voice claiming the water is holy.”
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
“words are the medium through which belief systems are manufactured, nurtured, and reinforced, their fanaticism fundamentally could not exist without them.”
― Cultish
― Cultish
“There’s a reason most religions encourage prayer: Language strengthens beliefs.”
― Cultish
― Cultish
“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“And I think this is how I would most like to imagine romance, friends, or should I say lovers. In praise of all my body can and cannot do, I wish to figure out how it can best sing with all of yours for a moment in a room where the walls sweat. I wish to lock eyes across a dance floor from you while something our mothers sang in the kitchen plays over the speakers. I want us to find each other among the forest of writhing and make a deal. Okay, lover. It is just us now. The only way out is through.”
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
― A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
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