35 Quotes by Kara Lee Corthron

I dug her usage of “Spotify” as a verb.

Saturday-morning cartoon sure aren’t what they used to be. The animation is lazy. Too clean. He misses being able to detect pencil lines and paint strokes in his favorite cartoon characters, his mind never quite separating the creatures from the art that brought them to life.

He kisses my tears, and I laugh. This is a moment. I want to remember this moment. Every detail, every sense. It’s one of those moments in life that makes everything else worth it. One of those moments that feels like an eternity of bliss in one tiny bite of time. It’s one of those moments that falls from some heavenly plane to remind you that life can be wonderful.

In a flash, I remember why I don’t care for therapists and why I didn’t want to do this in the first place. They judge. Even if they don’t mean to, they do. They think they know best and, sorse yet, they can convince you it’s true.

I don’t like being profiled. Doesn’t matter what the truth is.

Because it’s like taking a vacation from real life, and real life is mostly terrible.

You know gentrification is deep when a garage rock band made up of three white boys is called “Harlem”.

I am angry. It is illegal for me to be angry. Remember: Don’t get angry. It is illegal to be a black man and be angry. Right. Got it. I will remember this next time.

I’m probably the only person in the world that feels physical pain as a reaction to joy.