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Angela Y. Davis
“We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.”
Angela Davis

Edwidge Danticat
“I once heard an elder say that the dead who have no use for their words leave them as part of their children's inheritance. Proverbs, teeth suckings, obscenities, even grunts and moans once inserted in special places during conversations, all are passed along to the next heir.”
Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones

James Baldwin
“I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there”
James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin
“It began to seem that one would have to hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first idea was acceptance, the acceptance, totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are: in the light of this idea, it goes without saying that injustice is a commonplace. But this did not mean that one could be complacent, for the second idea was of equal power: that one must never, in one's own life, accept these injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength. This fight begins, however, in the heart and it now had been laid to my charge to keep my own heart free of hatred and despair. This intimation made my heart heavy and, now that my father was irrecoverable, I wished that he had been beside me so that I could have searched his face for the answers which only the future would give me now.”
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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25x33 A Place to Discuss.... Anything — 4 members — last activity Jun 06, 2009 06:35PM
For STA guys (and now alums to discuss intelligent things/sound smart - I want real people to talk to about my nerdy interests)
16814 STA Summer Book Club — 16 members — last activity Jun 07, 2010 10:29AM
Get off your butt and read.
74921 Classic Literature book club — 79 members — last activity Nov 11, 2013 01:01AM
The purpose of this book club will be to start focusing and reading all the classics that readers tend to forget about. We get enough advertisement on ...more
51525 Young People For — 8 members — last activity Jul 19, 2011 04:28PM
Young People For (YP4) is a strategic long-term leadership development program that identifies, engages and empowers the newest generation of progress ...more
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