Sublime

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

regularly.

I knew that some inscrutable energy preserved the breach.

I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there was another world, one beyond the gripping fear that undergirded the Dream.

The black world was expanding before me, and I could see now that that world was more than a photonegative of that of the people who believe they are white.

Americans believe in the reality of “race” as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world.

they had known something terrible about the world. Perhaps they so willingly parted with the security and sanctity of the black

But part of what I know is that there is the burden of living among Dreamers, and there