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Just as some cultures have a hundred words for 'snow,' there should be a hundred words in our language for all the ways a black boy can lie awake at night.

Saeed Jones

How We Fight For Our Lives · October 8, 2019 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Saeed Jones (born November 26, 1985) is an American poet.

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I will say for myself: America, I did the best I could with what I was given.

The “I” it seems doesn’t exist until we are able to say, “I am no longer yours.

A woman raises a boy into a man, loving him so intensely that her commitment finally repulses him.

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