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“It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.”
― Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
― Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

“Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.”
― Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
― Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
“Death wins nothing here,
gnawing wings that amputate–�
then spread, lift up, fly.”
― Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
gnawing wings that amputate–�
then spread, lift up, fly.”
― Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individualsâ€�, or groups of individualsâ€�, experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their 'pursuit of happiness' to outright obliterating it.”
― Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
― Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

“To escape the throngs, we decided to see the new Neil Degrasse Tyson planetarium show, Dark Universe. It costs more than two movie tickets and is less than thirty minutes long, but still I want to go back and see it again, preferably as soon as possible. It was more visually stunning than any Hollywood special effect I’d ever seen, making our smallness as individuals both staggering and - strangely - rather comforting. Only five percent of the universe consists of ordinary matter, Neil tells us. That includes all matter - you, and me, and the body of Michael Brown, and Mork’s rainbow suspenders, and the letters I wrote all summer, and the air conditioner I put out on the curb on Christmas Day because I was tired of looking at it and being reminded of the person who had installed it, and my sad dying computer that sounds like a swarm of bees when it gets too hot, and the fields of Point Reyes, and this year’s blossoms which are dust now, and the drafts of my book, and Israeli tanks, and the untaxed cigarettes that Eric Garner sold, and my father’s ill-fitting leg brace that did not accomplish what he’d hoped for in terms of restoring mobility, and the Denver airport, and haunting sperm whales that sleep vertically, and the water they sleep in, and Mars and Jupiter and all of the stars we see and all of the ones we don’t. That’s all regular matter, just five percent. A quarter is “dark matter,â€� which is invisible and detectable only by gravitational pull, and a whopping 70 percent of the universe is made up of “dark energy,â€� described as a cosmic antigravity, as yet totally unknowable. It’s basically all mystery out there - all of it, with just this one sliver of knowable, livable, finite light and life. And did I mention the effects were really cool? After seeing something like that it’s hard to stay mad at anyone, even yourself.”
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