“It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.”

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Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist 1944

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“It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.”

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