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Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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The Shadow of the Object

by Chloe Aridjis

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The Book of Disquiet

by Fernando Pessoa

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“He carried the Bible; the soldier carried the gun; the administrator and the settler carried the coin. Christianity, Commerce, Civilization: the Bible, the Coin, the Gun: Holy Trinity.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Petals of Blood

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“Describing African students sent to London to study in the 1970s, she writes (and Achebe quotes): They work hard for the Doctorates – They work too hard, Giving away Not only themselves, but All of us – The price is high, My brother, Otherwise the story is as old as empires.”
― Laura Chrisman, Postcolonial contraventions: Cultural readings of race, imperialism and transnationalism

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“Like most people who live on the edge, she spoke with two accents, neither authentic.”
― Madawi Al-Rasheed, A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia

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“The Supreme Court has now closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the criminal justice process, from stops and searches to plea bargaining and sentencing. The system of mass incarceration is now, for all practical purposes, thoroughly immunized from claims of racial bias.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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“If shackling former prisoners with a lifetime of debt and authorizing discrimination against them in employment, housing, education, and public benefits is not enough to send the message that they are not wanted and not even considered full citizens, then stripping voting rights from those labeled criminals surely gets the point across.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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