Sam Bortle Adelman
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Educated
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We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell. This is especially true in families.
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“The Fifteenth Amendment was a big deal. But here’s the thing about big deals. If people aren’t careful, they can be tricked into believing a big deal is a done deal. Like there’s no more fight left.”
― Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
― Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
“It doesn’t matter that love ends. It just matters that there’s love.”
― Instructions for Dancing
― Instructions for Dancing
“It is a blessing to know a free woman. Sometimes she will stop by and hold up a mirror for you. She will help you remember who you are.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else”
― Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else”
― Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994
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