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• When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the…
• How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned…
• It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I…
• Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.
• I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.
• It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers,…
• Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.
• Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also…
• The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is…
• All paths lead nowhere, choose one with heart,
• The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.
• The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our…

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