"And I see with a pang that every good thing I wish for this country, I secretly wish on her behalf. Any prayer I have that the future be a good one, that the place keep from breaking, is for her sake."

"I will be my own nation." ?

Got me ready to fall in love. 💕

"I think I smell bacon." Satchmo after my damn heart.

Loving #TheBookofHarlan! So bluesy, free, and full of soul. And the mothers in here are claiming my heart!

"...a text is not a unified thing, but a fragmentary or divisible thing, and that the reader is the one who divides it up, arbitrarily. Reading is the act that creates the pieces."