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“Somebody goes ahead and dies and all of a sudden you become a box for them, he thought, you store these things that no one has ever seen and you go on living like that, your head a coffin to keep memories of the dead alive. But what do you do with that kind of box? Where do you put it down?”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
“But race is the child of racism, not the father.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Words cast spells. You should know this as a writer. That's why it's called spelling, Labas.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
“But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indelible—this is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
Mariam’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mariam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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