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10% in.Good start. I like the idea of showing Black lives from different walks of life that expand the stereotypes.
The protagonist has gone to half the Ivy League schools and has to live up to the promise of his youth prodigy label as an adult. What ...more "
Rachel said:
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I just started reading the first chapter. I'm already annoyed. It feels like the author had to self-censure and couch the casual racism of mid-60s Massachusetts in a long excuse/explanation. A few paragraphs later, the author goes out of her way to t
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“Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about....Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to.”
― Buck: A Memoir
― Buck: A Memoir
“Whiteness centers itself in the mirror that we all look into.”
― Disorientation: Being Black in the World
― Disorientation: Being Black in the World
“Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.”
― Buck: A Memoir
― Buck: A Memoir
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