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“One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“As if purpose could solve everything, could take the outlines of what was missing and by sheer will invoke it, make it appear, bring it back to life.”
― Acceptance
― Acceptance
“Our kind of love can go into remission, but it’s always waiting to return. Like the world’s sweetest cancer.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“For poverty is miserable. It is ugly, disorganized, rowdy, sick, uneducated, violent, afflicted with crime. Poverty demeans human dignity. The demanding tone, the inarticulateness, the implied violence deeply offended us. We didn’t want to see it on our sacred monumental grounds. We wanted it out of sight and out of mind.”
― Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
― Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
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