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“Here,’ she said, ‘in this place we, flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don’t love your eyes; they’d just as soon pick em out. No more do they love the skin on your back”
― BELOVED
― BELOVED
“The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power, but in his own right”
― Song of Myself
― Song of Myself
“My lanterns. Your hands wick at the bronzed lamp of my breast. Strike me to spark— tremble me to awe. Into your lap let me lay my heavy horns”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
― Postcolonial Love Poem
“In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
and ate of it.
I said, “Is it good friend?”
“It is bitter-bitter,” He answered;
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart”
―
I saw a creature, naked, bestial
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
and ate of it.
I said, “Is it good friend?”
“It is bitter-bitter,” He answered;
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart”
―
“Man effects himself much more than the past effects him, he is only affected by it because he continuously reindoctrinates himself”
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