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It wasn’t easy to be tossed into a culture that I didn’t know.
“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the dangerous but also the inconvenient—people who are mentally ill, people who are addicts, people who are poor and uneducated and unskilled. Meanwhile the ghetto in the outside world is a prison as well, and a much more difficult one to escape from than this correctional compound.”
― Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
― Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
“Education was yet another place where white privilege was built into the curriculum and perpetuated forward, one generation at a time.”
― Hey, White Girl: A Look At White Privilege
― Hey, White Girl: A Look At White Privilege
“Jesus lived His Amen, Abba! so completely, so thoroughly, so perfectly that He fulfilled it. He identified with it. He is the response of Yes, Father! He fills yes to its farthest corners. There is no part of yes, no yes anywhere that He did not reach in His yes on the cross. Therefore, to the extent that I enter into Yes, Father, it is no longer I, but He in me, that lives unto God.”
― Light in the Shoe Shop: A Cobbler's Contemplations
― Light in the Shoe Shop: A Cobbler's Contemplations
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