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“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
― The Hunger Games
― The Hunger Games
“But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indelible—this is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway,”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
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