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The negro race will never leave those shores of the American continent, to which it was brought by the passions and the vices of Europeans; and it will not disappear from the New World as long as it continues to exist.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
Ars Poetica #100: I Believe
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(Know once for all, avow'd on purpose, wherever are men like me, are our lusty lurking masculine poems,)
Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass
“He attended school, where he was taught what every white child was taught; but the moment he went through the door of the school into life he knew that the white boy went one way and he went another. School stimulated and developed in him those impulses which all of us have, and then he was made to realize that he could not act upon them. Can the
... See moreRichard Wright • Native Son
was socially unaware as only a middle-class white kid in a middle-class white city can be.
Ursula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Like a white lady with no worry on her mind.”
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
Allen Ginsberg reads America
youtube.comAnd I who have written much in prose and verse
For others’ uses, will write now for mine,—
Will write my story for my better self,
As when you paint your portrait for a friend,
Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it
Long after he has ceased to love you, just
To hold together what he was and is.