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“Understanding African American attitudes and actions on matters of crime and punishment requires that we pay careful attention to another topic that is often overlooked in criminal justice scholarship: class divisions within the black community.21 Although mass incarceration harms black America as a whole, its most direct victims are the poorest, least educated blacks. While”
― James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

“Winners are the favourites of heaven.”
― Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire

“Memory works that way—like seeing forward and backward at the same time.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Bookstores also stimulate our senses. Being surrounded by books matters. Sociologists have found that just growing up in a home full of books—mere proximity—confers a lifetime of intellectual benefits.”
― Evan Friss, The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore