Zikora
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I’d read somewhere that maternal mortality was higher in America than anywhere else in the Western world—or was it just higher for Black women?
“These days to say someone is a good person is to damn with faint praise. That’s a reflection of our cynical time and its twisted values. But to be called good is to be specially valued.”
― As I Like It
― As I Like It
“Germany proves that removing statues does not erase history, nor cause it to be forgotten. If anything, it may have the opposite effect.”
― Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
― Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.’ Or, better still: ‘A modest little person with much to be modest about.”
― As I Like It
― As I Like It
“The statue of Stalin’s boots that now stands in Budapest is not only a statue of a statue; it is a statue that commemorates the pulling down of a statue.”
― Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
― Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
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