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Hanif Abdurraqib • There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Lauren McBride
@lauashmcb
I am thankful to Maxine Beneba Clarke for writing The Hate Race, a memoir of growing up as a black Afro-Caribbean woman in Australia in the 1980s.
Kemi Nekvapil • POWER: A woman's guide to living and leading without apology
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!
Langston Hughes • Let America Be America Again
Alicia McElhaney
@aliciamcelhaney
For both Baraka and O’Hara, the tone and texture of intimate conversation was an aesthetic of resistance.
Eula Biss • Having and Being Had
Poetry! The endemic illness of young malcontents, desperately embracing beauty, hog-tied to the tempting rhymes of a loaned-out language, tossed about between Creole and French like those rowboats over there on the sea I can hear but not see crashing from my shack.
Marie Vieux-Chauvet • Love, Anger, Madness
Her hair was a declaration, not an admission.