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Kiese Laymon Quote: “Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers have paid more than their fair share, and our nation owes them and their children, and their children’s children, a lifetime of healthy choices and second chances. That would be responsible.”

51. “Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers have paid more than their fair share, and our nation owes them and their children, and their children’s children, a lifetime of healthy choices and second chances. That would be responsible.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “I will not misdirect or manipulate human beings... especially those human beings who love me enough to risk being misdirected or manipulated. I will not misdirect or manipulate myself... I will not say I am sorry when I am resentful. I will not give my blessings away. I will love myself enough to be honest when I fail at loving.”

52. “I will not misdirect or manipulate human beings... especially those human beings who love me enough to risk being misdirected or manipulated. I will not misdirect or manipulate myself... I will not say I am sorry when I am resentful. I will not give my blessings away. I will love myself enough to be honest when I fail at loving.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “I’d never imagined Layla being in one emergency, much less emergencies. Part of it was Layla was a black girl and I was taught by big boys that black girls would be okay no matter what we did to them.”

53. “I’d never imagined Layla being in one emergency, much less emergencies. Part of it was Layla was a black girl and I was taught by big boys that black girls would be okay no matter what we did to them.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “In class, I only spoke when I could be an articulate defender of black people. I didn’t use the classroom to ask questions. I didn’t use the classroom to make ungrounded claims. There was too much at stake to ask questions, to be dumb, to be a curious student, in front of a room of white folk who assumed all black folk were intellectually less than.”

54. “In class, I only spoke when I could be an articulate defender of black people. I didn’t use the classroom to ask questions. I didn’t use the classroom to make ungrounded claims. There was too much at stake to ask questions, to be dumb, to be a curious student, in front of a room of white folk who assumed all black folk were intellectually less than.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “Don’t be good,” you said across the space between us, “Be perfect. Be fantastic”.”

55. “Don’t be good,” you said across the space between us, “Be perfect. Be fantastic”.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other.”

56. “The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “He wanted us to praise him for his tough love, which was really a way of encouraging students to thank him for not hurting us as much as he could.”

57. “He wanted us to praise him for his tough love, which was really a way of encouraging students to thank him for not hurting us as much as he could.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “And it only existed on Cosby’s show because Bill Cosby seemed obsessed with how white folk watched black folk watch us watch him.”

58. “And it only existed on Cosby’s show because Bill Cosby seemed obsessed with how white folk watched black folk watch us watch him.”

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Kiese Laymon Quote: “For the first time in my life, I experienced not having the most fear-provoking body in a contained American space.”

59. “For the first time in my life, I experienced not having the most fear-provoking body in a contained American space.”

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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.”

60. “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: “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.”

61. “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.”

62. “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.”

63. “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?”

64. “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?”

— Kiese Laymon

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.”

65. “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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