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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

by David W. Blight

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by Haruki Murakami

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“I did not ask. Later I felt bad about this. I knew, even then, that whenever I nodded along in ignorance, I lost an opportunity, betrayed the wonder in me by privileging the appearance of knowing over the work of finding out.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

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“The world is wrong. You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.”
― Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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“Memory is a tough place. You were there. If this is not the truth, it is also not a lie.”
― Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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“Spring adds, summer multiplies, autumn subtracts, winter divides.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

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“because white men can't
police their imagination
black men are dying”
― Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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