Emerita Stroth

“By 1970, exclusion was so complete that fewer than 500 black families lived in white suburban neighborhoods in the entire Chicago metropolitan area, and most of those were in just five or six suburbs.”
― James W. Loewen, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

“I don't believe in coincidences."
"Neither do I. That's a coincidence, isn't it?”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“Time can tick when there is no clock.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift

“We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.”
― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves