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Iola Leroy

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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"Dr Latrobe is racism on steroids. Interesting to see how Harper comments on social types in society through characters you’re meant to dislike. I also hate Dr. Gresham. He reminds me of Parnell James in Blues for Mister Charlie—white men who maybe mean well but when it comes down to it won’t do anything for racial justice" — Jan 18, 2026 06:53PM

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“These were the colloquies in heaven.”
― Homer, The Iliad

tags: aphrodite, homer, the-illiad

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“By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It’s a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.”
― Kaori Miyazono

tags: collaboration, communication, harmony, kaori, music, your-lie-in-april

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“People feel hurt when you point out the reality that forms experience because the reality is not their emotional experience.”
― Claudia Rankine, Just Us: An American Conversation

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“Senator Bernie Sanders, who was the hope of so many, considering Democratic losses after the 2018 midterm elections, remarked, “There are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American.” How is not voting for someone simply because they’re black not racist?”
― Claudia Rankine, Just Us: An American Conversation

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“American prosperity was ill-gotten and selective in its distribution. What is needed is an airing of family secrets, a settling with old ghosts. What is needed is a healing of the American psyche and the banishment of white guilt…. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.”
― Claudia Rankine, Just Us: An American Conversation

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