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The need to call this thing “good” and this thing “bad,” this thing “white” and this thing “black,” was an impulse that Effia did not understand. In her village, everything was everything. Everything bore the weight of everything else.
“Nobody walks a difficult path without stumbling now and again. It didn’t break you when you fell. That’s the important part.”
― Towers of Midnight
― Towers of Midnight
“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
― Just Mercy
― Just Mercy
“The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”
― Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
― Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
“It strikes me that religion—in its essence—seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they are rich and guilty than if they are poor and innocent.”
― Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
― Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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