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I love this quote by Ntozake Shange: “i cant count the number of times i have viscerally wanted to attack deform n maim the language that i was taught to hate myself in.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025

“I thought, ‘I cant let go, I can’t let go of her’.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2024

“You cant understand it. You would have to be born there,” says the tortured Quentin in William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!”

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2023

“I cant tell if she has me or Amos’s eyes,” Norton wrote on Jan. 30, 2020, after seeing the latest picture of Eden at the hospital.

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2023

“I’m insane. I cant take her. Keep her. What am I thinking of. Jason,” she says, grabbing my arm.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner