“Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.”
“Black children need waves of present, multifaceted love, not simply present fathers.”
Kiese Laymon, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America“Your letter reminds me that any love that necessitates deception is not love. It doesn't matter if that supposed love is institutional or personal.”
Kiese Laymon, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America“We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause.”
Kiese Laymon, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America“Obama will win. We will win. Then we will continue to lose. And the right questions will never be honestly asked or answered, and it's all just too much.”
Kiese Laymon, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America“If God needs to condemn anything to hell, it ought to be the idea of social death. Every day we commit an act of revolution, an act of treason, against a system that was never meant to guarantee our survival.”
Kiese Laymon, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America“The man of courage is not the man who did not face adversity. The man of courage is the man who faced adversity and spoke to it. The man of courage tells adversity, "You're trespassing and I give you no authority to steal my joy, my faith or my hope.”
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