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pestiferous

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “The defining feature of being drafted into the Black race [is] the inescapable robbery of time.”

In this long battle, a battle by no means finished, the unforeseeable effects of which will be felt by many future generations, the white man’s motive was the protection of his identity; the black man was motivated by the need to establish an identity. And despite the terrorization which the Negro in America endured and endures sporadically until t

White people were looking at themselves and what their history has wrought, like a domestic animal having its face shoved into its own urine.”

But Stonewall, Compton, and Dewey’s all have one thing in common: drag queens and street kids.

Frank Norris’s ungainly naturalist novel McTeague in the former and to T. S. Eliot’s cryptic “The Waste Land” in the latter.

his casual stride the ultimate sign of belonging.

“You know, I don’t think she ever lost her shit around her white friends.” “Yeah, well,” Erin said ruefully, “we were family.”

Wolfe had been an influential advocate in the 1970s