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“Rationality is not unnecessary. It serves the chaos of knowledge. It serves feeling. It serves to get from this place to that place. But if you don't honor those places, then the road is meaningless. Too often, that's what happens with the worship of rationality and that circular, academic, analytic thinking. But ultimately, I don't see feel/think as a dichotomy. I see them as a choice of ways and combinations.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.”
― Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
― Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“[to know your whites] ... is to be intimate with some white persons but to critically withhold faith in white people categorically”
― Thick: And Other Essays
― Thick: And Other Essays
“Smart is only a construct of correspondence, between one’s abilities, one’s environment, and one’s moment in history.”
― Thick: And Other Essays
― Thick: And Other Essays
“We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present. We do not have to suffer the waste of an amnesia that robs us of the lessons of the past rather than permit us to read them with pride as well as deep understanding. We know what it is to be lied to, and we know how important it is not lie to ourselves. We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about—survival and growth.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
A Novel Idea: a NYC Bookclub
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This is the goodreads' version of the already existing book club appropriately and wittingly named "A Novel Idea." The group is based in New York City ...more
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