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“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip – has always created a passion for us.
Black people need to find out. We have to find out Who We Are and Where We Come From.”
― A Parallel Life
Black people need to find out. We have to find out Who We Are and Where We Come From.”
― A Parallel Life
“When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight.
But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.”
― A Parallel Life
But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.”
― A Parallel Life
“I was writing, writing all the time, in my head, looking out at the world.”
― A Parallel Life
― A Parallel Life
“All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.”
― The Enemy of the Good
― The Enemy of the Good
“Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her own possum, cut her own cotton, fix her own roof, make her own whiskey, walk in her own shoes, and speak her mind, tell her own story.
A black woman.
Ready for the journey.
The Journey.”
― A Parallel Life
A black woman.
Ready for the journey.
The Journey.”
― A Parallel Life
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Gary’s 2024 Year in Books
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