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          Juli Lasselle
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      “There wasn’t a Black author on the New York Times bestseller list until 1970. By running the bookstore the way he does, Ralph is keeping it very, very white.”
    
― The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
  ― The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
 
      “A person can carry his own persecutor, his own prison, about with him, Monseigneur. He can - as you know - die of thirst even when he has the clearest water within his reach. To be free...not to be free...it is all relative. No one has to drag along more ballast than he wants to and he who allows himself to be bound is a fool. The biggest fools are those who wear shackles of cobwebs and believe themselves to be helpless.”
    
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