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Kate TerHaar
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What’s the problem with being “not racist”? It is a claim that signifies neutrality: “I am not a racist, but neither am I aggressively against racism.” But there is no neutrality in the racism struggle. The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not
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“Even people who exude light and happiness have dark secrets. Sometimes, the lie becomes so entrenched it becomes the truth, hidden away in the deep recesses of the mind until death erases it, leaving the world a little different. Secrets and lies can take on a life of their own, they can be twisted and manipulated, or they can burst into the world from the mouth of someone just as they are starting to lose their mind.”
― The Berry Pickers
― The Berry Pickers
“no matter what difficulties people face, they will always have the strength to overcome them.”
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
“It encourages self-righteousness in the one even as it destroys self-determination in the other.”
― Absolution
― Absolution
“Although in truth it seems to me that it’s not the world that’s small, only our time in it.”
― Absolution
― Absolution
“Please try to remember that books aren’t always an escape; sometimes books teach us things. They show us the world; they don’t hide it.”
― The Reading List
― The Reading List
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