Sublime

Here she trailed off, because Michael was looking at her in an erasing way so that the strength of every word faded once it had entered the area of his auditory range.

benevolence.

soliloquizing

don’t know why I didn’t recognize the racial characteristics when I saw him. Evidently I’m easily deceived.

callow,

This conceptual duple reflected what W.E.B. Du Bois indelibly voiced in The Souls of Black Folk in 1903. “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others,” Du Bois wrote. He would neither “Africanize America” nor “bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism.”

Standing by the window, he was aware of the street below and the darkness of it, thick with vengeance and violence.

Meno

The laughter turns to groans. Blindness and unreason, rampant.