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Binti (Binti, #1)

by Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: science-fiction, currently-reading

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Jun 25, 2016 06:18PM

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Too Much Happiness: Stories

by Alice Munro

bookshelves: contemporary-fiction, currently-reading

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Jun 25, 2016 06:17PM

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

bookshelves: ethnic-studies, on-hold, currently-reading

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“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”
― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

tags: courage, life, risk

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“They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.”
I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

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“Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.”
― Roland Barthes

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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking

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“The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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