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Kiese Laymon Quote: “The worst of me wants credit for intending to do right by Jermaine, and has no intentions of disrupting my life for the needs of a cousin I always looked up to.”

51. “The worst of me wants credit for intending to do right by Jermaine, and has no intentions of disrupting my life for the needs of a cousin I always looked up to.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “I am vulnerable, but not powerless.”

52. “I am vulnerable, but not powerless.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “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.”

53. “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.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause.”

54. “We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “The last time Shalaya Crump and I really talked, she told me, “City, I could love you if you helped me change the future dot-dot-dot in a special way.”

55. “The last time Shalaya Crump and I really talked, she told me, “City, I could love you if you helped me change the future dot-dot-dot in a special way.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “I don’t know if we somehow got stuck in a dumb book or movie. Right now, I feel like we supposed to say, ‘Golly, let’s go save the grandfathers we never knew.’ But like you always say, life ain’t no book. This is real life. In real life, do we really need our granddaddies?”

56. “I don’t know if we somehow got stuck in a dumb book or movie. Right now, I feel like we supposed to say, ‘Golly, let’s go save the grandfathers we never knew.’ But like you always say, life ain’t no book. This is real life. In real life, do we really need our granddaddies?”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “Being twice as excellent as white folk will get you half of what they get. Being anything less will get you hell.”

57. “Being twice as excellent as white folk will get you half of what they get. Being anything less will get you hell.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “In her own way, she was as compassionate and thoughtful as a girl could be, but her mind was stronger than yours and no one could ever really break her heart. You could sprain her heart, and her heart would bruise a lot, but it could never ever be broken. Never. I figured that there were probably 27 people like that in the world at one time and they were the only people who should be running for president of anything that mattered.”

58. “In her own way, she was as compassionate and thoughtful as a girl could be, but her mind was stronger than yours and no one could ever really break her heart. You could sprain her heart, and her heart would bruise a lot, but it could never ever be broken. Never. I figured that there were probably 27 people like that in the world at one time and they were the only people who should be running for president of anything that mattered.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “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.”

59. “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.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “To white folk and the police, you will always be huge no matter how skinny you are. Get a grip.”

60. “To white folk and the police, you will always be huge no matter how skinny you are. Get a grip.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “Mama’s antidote to being born a black boy on parole in Central Mississippi is not for us to seek freedom, but to insist on excellence at all times. Mama takes it personal when she realizes that I realize she is wrong. There ain’t no antidote to life, I tell her. How free can you be if you really accept that white folks are the traffic cops of your life? Mama tells me that she is not talking about freedom. She says that she is talking about survival.”

61. “Mama’s antidote to being born a black boy on parole in Central Mississippi is not for us to seek freedom, but to insist on excellence at all times. Mama takes it personal when she realizes that I realize she is wrong. There ain’t no antidote to life, I tell her. How free can you be if you really accept that white folks are the traffic cops of your life? Mama tells me that she is not talking about freedom. She says that she is talking about survival.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “But i am a black man whose black mama’s body and spirit were terrorized by another black man’s hands and words. Sexism and patriarchy are not part of the revolution. I am a gender-maneuvering gay black man whose spirit was terrorized by other straight black men. Hetero-sexism and heteronormativity are not a part of our revolution. I am a black man who has ignored the plights of so many of my brothers. Separation because of difference and elitism based on class is not a part of the revolution.”

62. “But i am a black man whose black mama’s body and spirit were terrorized by another black man’s hands and words. Sexism and patriarchy are not part of the revolution. I am a gender-maneuvering gay black man whose spirit was terrorized by other straight black men. Hetero-sexism and heteronormativity are not a part of our revolution. I am a black man who has ignored the plights of so many of my brothers. Separation because of difference and elitism based on class is not a part of the revolution.”

— Kiese Laymon

Kiese Laymon Quote: “But the problem is you hurting yourself by trying to let folk know they hurt you.”

63. “But the problem is you hurting yourself by trying to let folk know they hurt you.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “It all felt like love until it didn’t. Then it felt like dying.”

64. “It all felt like love until it didn’t. Then it felt like dying.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “I loved our style of flying.”

65. “I loved our style of flying.”

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