cant
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I love this quote by Ntozake Shange: “i cant count the number of times i have viscerally wanted to attack deform n maim the language that i was taught to hate myself in.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025
“You cant understand it. You would have to be born there,” says the tortured Quentin in William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!”
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2023
“I cant tell if she has me or Amos’s eyes,” Norton wrote on Jan. 30, 2020, after seeing the latest picture of Eden at the hospital.
From Salon • Nov. 15, 2023
"Even now as we are sitting here they are dealing with complexity and difficulties that we cant begin to imagine."
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2023
“I’d forgotten that Lagos is so expensive. I cant believe how much money the Nigerian wealthy spend.”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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