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Superintendent White had encouraged a program by which the school system provided only minimal elements of the school setting—buildings and personnel for the most part—while parent groups provided all of the extras, encyclopedias, and
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“When you make the effort to speak someone else’s language, even if it’s just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, “I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“A mockingbird sings his borrowed songs all hooked together like different-colored ribbons tied end after end.”
― The Book of Lost Friends
― The Book of Lost Friends
“Here’s what’s not beautiful about it: from here, you can’t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It’s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It’s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
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