“She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
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Jonathan Safran Foer262
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Context: The Negro constitutes half the poor of the nation. Like all poor, Negro and white, they have many unwanted children. This is a cruel evil they urgently need to control. There is scarcely anything more tragic in human life than a child who is not wanted. That which should be a blessing becomes a curse for parent and child. There is nothing inherent in the Negro mentality which creates this condition. Their poverty causes it. When Negroes have been able to ascend economically, statistics reveal they plan their families with even greater care than whites. Negroes of higher economic and educational status actually have fewer children than white families in the same circumstances.
“She never stumbles,
she's got no place to fall.
She's nobody's child,
the law can't touch her at all.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist