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1/22/2026: I just finished reading Letter from a Birmingham Jail. So powerful! It needs to be studied for both what it says (it says a lot) and for the writing (just incredible). I remain dumbfounded that we are still struggling with racism. Jesus sa
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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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“The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.”
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“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Emerson in His Journals
― Emerson in His Journals
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