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Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That's why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.
Kiese Laymon
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You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.
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Kiese Laymon
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August 15, 1974
(age 51)
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Kiese Laymon is an American writer, editor and a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi.
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