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BORN IN BABYLON

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Reads 736
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Parts 18
Time 14m

My school of indifference opened and never closed; I remained its only student.

BORN IN BABYLON is a collection of short essays, fragments, prose, creative nonfiction, and other miscellany regarding Blackness, womanhood, memory, identity, and America.

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