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Kiese Laymon, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America Quotes: We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause.
         

We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause.


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