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“But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President -- should he be Catholic -- how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference, and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him, or the people who might elect him.”
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“The only balm to sorrow is memory; the only salve for the pain of losing someone to death is acknowledging the life that existed before.”
― Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
― Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“You are a scoundrel," she whispered furiously.
"Yes," he agreed. "I'm thinking of starting a Society of Gentlemen Scoundrels."
"You're millennia too late. It already exists and is called the patriarchy.”
― The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
"Yes," he agreed. "I'm thinking of starting a Society of Gentlemen Scoundrels."
"You're millennia too late. It already exists and is called the patriarchy.”
― The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
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