We are caught - trapped, some might say - in the web of fate, but we are each just as surely among its multitude of spinners. In our spinning lies our hope; in our spinning lies our destiny. (Fenton Johnson)

We are caught - trapped, some might say - in the web of fate, but we are each just as surely among its multitude of spinners. In our spinning lies our hope; in our spinning lies our destiny.

Fenton Johnson

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