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Bernardine Evaristo
“be a person with knowledge not just opinions”
Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

Bernardine Evaristo
“she didn’t tell them she’d taken her father for granted and carried her blinkered, self-righteous perspective of him from childhood through to his death, when in fact he’d done nothing wrong except fail to live up to her feminist expectations of him”
Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

Bernardine Evaristo
“(...) the so-called democratization of reviews means the lowering of standards, and that subject knowledge, history and critical context are at risk of being lost in favour of people who only know how to write in attention-seeking soundbites.”
Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bernardine Evaristo
“his bredren and sistren could damned well speak up for themselves why should he carry the burden of representation when it will only hold him back? white people are only required to represent themselves, not an entire race”
Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

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