the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive. - Margaret Millar

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If I could offer a single prescription for the survival of America, and particularly black America, it would be to restore the family. And if you asked me how to do it, my answer - doubtlessly oversimplified - would be; save the boys.

Margaret Millar

the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

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Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

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That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue. . . Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.

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The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

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The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

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