Sublime
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To be an American is to be infused with the plantation South, with its Black vernacular, its insurgency, and also its brutal masculinity, its worship of Whiteness, its expulsion and its massacres, its self-defeating stinginess and unapologetic pride.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Vyrva McElmo,
Thomas Pynchon • Bleeding Edge
Each of them knows innumerable minute, local truths.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
he as an individual can live in dignity, even though he as a Negro cannot.