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young John Bear discovered basketball and Wilfred Dick, then a four-foot-two point guard. It was hatred at first sight, the kind of grand romantic hatred that in thirteen-year-old boys is indistinguishable from or the nearest they can get to love.
Michael Chabon • The Yiddish Policemen's Union
paradox in modern primitivism.
Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
The colored boys frothed and speculated and stared off in class, slacked off in the sweet potato fields. Mulling the prospect of a black champion: One of them victorious for a change, and those who kept you down whittled to dust, seeing stars.
Colson Whitehead • The Nickel Boys
