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“Here,’ she said, ‘in this place we, flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don’t love your eyes; they’d just as soon pick em out. No more do they love the skin on your back”
― BELOVED
― BELOVED
“My lanterns. Your hands wick at the bronzed lamp of my breast. Strike me to spark— tremble me to awe. Into your lap let me lay my heavy horns”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
― Postcolonial Love Poem
“I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, / By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same term”
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“The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power, but in his own right”
― Song of Myself
― Song of Myself
“But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw”
― Things Fall Apart
― Things Fall Apart
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