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Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

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I didn’t know that money could make the cell doors swing open. I didn’t know that if a woman was drunk when the violence occurred, she wouldn’t be taken seriously. I didn’t know that if he was drunk when the violence occurred, people would ...more

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“Helena laughs, and in a world where death is a shadow at the edge of every light, I discover that I have to smile.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Light in Hidden Places

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“What I saw was the joy of hate. The happiness of causing another person’s death and pain. What I saw was evil.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Light in Hidden Places

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“Look at our skin, Hela,” I whispered. “Yours is a little browner than mine, but it’s still skin, isn’t it? It’s skin over blood over bones, just like any person. A Jew is a person with blood and skin and a family, some of them good, some of them bad, just like everyone. Only they choose Moses as their leader instead of Jesus. But remember, Jesus was a Jew, too. One God for both, Hela. Our mama said that.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Light in Hidden Places

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“Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.”
― Susanna Kearsley, Bellewether

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“Lydia, sitting in silence through all of this, had absorbed gradually what they were speaking of, and what it meant. And for days after that she had lived with a heavy place deep in her heart where a piece of her innocence had been torn out and replaced with the weightier truth of the world.”
― Susanna Kearsley, Bellewether

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