Harriet Levin
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"Antisemitic screed from a pseudointellectual who spent 10 days in a country he believes shouldn't exist. Very poorly written and bereft of any facts. I found it challenging to finish Coates’ latest book. From the beginning, it was clear that he strug"
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"Coates thinks he can use the same western lens of race on an incredibly complicated relationship that goes back to biblical times which is incredibly dangerous and in and of itself a form of colonization. "
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"I knew nothing about Coates going into this book. It sounded like The Message could be a perfect companion book to Clint Smith's How the Word is Passed. Both authors wrote about traveling to Goree, off the coast of Senegal. The island was used to loa"
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“Life in extremity reveals itself in its movement a definite rhythm of decline and renewal. The state of wakefulness is essential, but in actual experience it is less an unwavering hardness of spirit than a tenuous achievement with periods of weakness and strength. Survivors not only wake, but reawaken, fall low and begin to die, and then turn back to life.”
― The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps
― The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps

“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.”
― Duino Elegies
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.”
― Duino Elegies

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