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Ulysses, who realizes in fact that nostalgia is not some sort of restless energy that propels him homeward, but that nostalgia is his home, the way that, in exile, only paradox makes sense. He finds his home in the purely intellectual
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“People, even if they are so thoughtless as to be born black, do not come into this world merely to provide mink coats and diamonds for chattering, trivial, pale matrons, or genocidal opportunities for their unsexed, unloved, and, finally, despicable men—oh, pioneers!
There will be bloody holding actions all over the world, for years to come: but the Western party is over, and the white man's sun has set. Period.”
― No Name in the Street
There will be bloody holding actions all over the world, for years to come: but the Western party is over, and the white man's sun has set. Period.”
― No Name in the Street
“To be liberated from the stigma of blackness by embracing it is to cease, forever, one's interior argument and collaboration with the authors of one's degradation. It abruptly reduces the white enemy to a contest merely physical, which he can win only physically.”
― No Name in the Street
― No Name in the Street
“I mention Jackie mostly because I want to be assured that I inhabit the same universe as other people; that I am not alone on a distant shore. Jackie glues me to this world—most effectively when I can find a way to mention her name or her attributes, when I can find a pretext, however frail, to introduce her into a conversation, even at the risk of non sequitur, bathos, or incoherence.”
― Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon
― Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon
“How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.”
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“In the months after the relationship ends, a person can seem to grow at a lightning rate, like in a nature documentary where weeks of footage is run at high speed to show a plant unfurling in seconds, but in reality the person has been growing all along, under the surface, and it is only in their new freedom, in their hair-raising aloneness, that the person can allow for these underground things to break through and unfurl themselves in the light.”
― Forest Dark
― Forest Dark
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