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Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

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We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III

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The moment I got home this evening, it felt like he was begging for a fight, it didn’t matter with who—anybody would do, as long as they could bleed, as long as they could break.

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“And there were no lights on in the houses he passed. No movement at all. Only the vastness of the road, the treasure of America's immensity abandoned by its keeper. Nearly an entire nation seemed, suddenly, discoverable. He wondered if this was what Columbus felt: to look upon something already there with nothing to stop you from claiming every mile as yours.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants

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“No one else wanted to be a black person in America. And everyone knew that fact, however cruelly the result played itself out. No matter the worry in their lives, they could all but count on a voice, redemptive and default, Whispering as a comfort to their hearts: At least I'm not them. And so they carried on, the injustice of it as natural and inconvenient to their lives as a bit of rain.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants

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“Students flirted and
smiled at each other as effortless as sunlight on a breeze. So much life and so much energy. Easy to forget that half the world died. But then again, Charlie noted, neither grief nor calamity had ever stopped the joy of black people. We smiled through the worst the world had to offer, he thought. Smiled even when our lips bled.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants

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“She followed them underwater until she could no longer breathe and swam back for air. Until she could no longer see anything in those depths.
Until she no longer had strength to keep diving down. And she tried. Swimming, screaming, fighting. She tried her very best. To drown herself along with them. To feel what they felt. As she had been trying to all her life.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants

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“Charlie stood up and wandered the edges of campus, watching without engaging. In this new world, he could figure neither where nor how he fit. Charlie had conflict in his heart long before the event. Before prison. All the way back to when he first learned to define himself by the language in the eyes of others, quick to articulate their bias. Ubiquitous enough for him to question the rationality of his very existence, the conflict of Charlie's darkness could only be resolved in the way any black man sees himself, that insoluble calculus. Does he see himself from within, as a divine composite of the joys, fears, hopes, and passions that make up any human being? Or does he see himself through the eyes of the world and how it reacted to him? His darkness was as elementary a question as it was existential: Who was he?”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants

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