Thousands demonstrate in Minnesota and across US to protest ICE Toni Morrison wrote, “ "There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language." Language, really, is all I have now, the only avenue for heartbreak, for rage, and, in the end, for hope.   I lived in Minneapolis for ten years, the most remarkable years of my life. It was there that I met a woman who saw something in me that I could never hav

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