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    Colson Whitehead
    “And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.”
    ― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
    tags: african-americans, america, cruelty, delusions, native-americans, race-relations, slavery, theft, united-states, united-states-of-america, us, usa, war
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
    tags: education
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: apocryphal, feminism
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    Robin Roe
    “It's strange how many ways there are to miss someone. You miss the things they did and who they were, but you also miss who you were to them. The way everything you said and did was beautiful or entertaining or important. How much you mattered.”
    ― Robin Roe, A List of Cages
    tags: feelings, letting-go, losing-someone, love, missing-someone, moving-on
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    Colson Whitehead
    “Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.”
    ― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
    tags: african-americans, dignity, race-relations, slavery, white-people
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: handmaid-s-tale
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    Anthony Doerr
    “So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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    Anthony Doerr
    “All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Caitlin Doughty
    “Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.”
    ― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
    tags: death, grief, mortality
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    Kent Haruf
    “The evening wasn’t cold yet... But the air was turning sharp, with a fall feeling of loneliness coming. Something unaccountable pending in the air.”
    ― Kent Haruf, Plainsong
    tags: change, loneliness
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    Kent Haruf
    “You don't deserve it, he said aloud. Don't ever begin to think that you do.”
    ― Kent Haruf, Plainsong
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  • #14
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: funny
    6899 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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  • #17
    Margaret Atwood
    “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: love, obsession, sleep
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Bari Weiss
    “When anti-Zionism becomes a normative political position, active anti-Semitism becomes the norm. Because if you believe that Zionism is racism, it follows that Zionists are racists. And everyone knows what should happen to racists.”
    ― Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism
    tags: jews, politics, semitism
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: better
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    Bari Weiss
    “Europe is very good at building memorials for dead Jews. It is still learning how to protect the living ones. Vigils honor the dead, but they don't do much for the living. Solidarity does.”
    ― Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism
    tags: europe, jews, politics
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  • #22
    “I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres
    tags: animal-protection, animals, deer, humor, hunting, killing, taxidermy
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  • #23
    “If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, My Point... And I Do Have One
    tags: animal-cruelty, animal-rights, animal-testing, animal-welfare, animals, cosmetics, ethics, prisoners, vegan, veganism
    1184 likes

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    Elie Wiesel
    “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
    ― Elie Wiesel, Night
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    Isabel Wilkerson
    “The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse.”
    ― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
    tags: caste, caste-system, racism-in-america
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    Isabel Wilkerson
    “We are responsible for our own ignorance or, with time and openhearted enlightenment, our own wisdom.”
    ― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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    Jami Attenberg
    “I don’t need to jump off cliffs into oceans to die, because every day there is a little death waiting for me. All I have to do is wake up and walk out the front door.”
    ― Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up
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    James McBride
    “Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. The lies they tell each other sound better to them than the truth does when it comes out of our mouths.”
    ― James McBride, Deacon King Kong
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    James McBride
    “Isn’t it something,” Hettie said softly, “what ol’ New York really is? We come here to be free and find life’s worse here than back home. The white folks here just color it different. They don’t mind you sitting next to ’em on the subway, or riding the bus in the front seat, but if you asks for the same pay, or wants to live next door, or get so beat down you don’t wanna stand up and sing about how great America is, they’ll bust down on you so hard pus’ll come out your ears.”
    ― James McBride, Deacon King Kong
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  • #30
    James McBride
    “Why we got to have the police around every time we has a simple party? Ya'll don't watch out for us. Y'all watch over us. I don't see y'all out there standing over the white folks in Park Slope when they has their block parties”
    ― James McBride, Deacon King Kong
    tags: police
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