“The thing about getting old, Bar,” Toot had told me, “is that you’re the same person inside.” I remember her eyes studying me through her thick bifocals, as if to make sure I was paying attention. “You’re trapped in this doggone
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“It is humbling to have your social fluency, your sense of yourself as a competent, independent person, upended by a foreign city.”
― American Spy
― American Spy
“The National Center for Women and Policing reported in 2014 that 10 percent of American families experience domestic violence, but for police officers’ families, the number is two to four times higher, one of the highest rates in the nation, though given the issue’s national coverage a first guess would be that the highest rate involves black football players.”
― Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
― Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
“So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
“To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth, must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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