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Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

by Elizabeth Keckley

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“Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody to read it, does it make a sound?”
― Sherman Alexie, Ten Little Indians

tags: if-a-tree-falls-in-the-forest, sherman-alexie, ten-little-indians

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“Yes, he just wanted her to want to be a mom, in the same way that he felt, with all of his blood, that he was a dad first, and everything else in the world an obscure, unfathomably distant second.”
― J. Ryan Stradal, Kitchens of the Great Midwest

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“I don't know why, but I don't trust the word free anymore. Lunch here is supposed to be free, but it feels like it costs me a lot.”
― Rex Ogle, Free Lunch

tags: poverty

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“...have a house without a pie, be ashamed until you die.”
― J. Ryan Stradal, Kitchens of the Great Midwest

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“Ironically, slavery's burdens - all that that she suffered while working with different yet demanding families - turned Harriet into a warrior, a warrior who was ready to slay the dragon of human bondage.”
― Erica Armstrong Dunbar, She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman

tags: slavery

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