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“Liliana spoke here, as she had ever since she was a child, of a love that was utterly free. Not the selfish love that tied couples together, but a love so grand, so absolute, that bowed down to no one, to nothing at all.”
― Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
― Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
“You believe everything is a desperate struggle to be different, but you believe this because that is your own struggle. But it is not mine. Mine is to be honest. Or at least to try. I try to be honest.”
― Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
― Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
“A common thread exists between the civil rights era... and today... Then as now, school choice relies on Black resiliency, Black ambition, and Black people's relentless pursuit of education to create the facade that our children have choices in life to mitigate racism and anti-Blackness...”
― Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
― Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
“After 1983, education no longer had time for critical-thinking skills, civics education for a better world, teacher-student relationships, or divergent thinking.”
― Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
― Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
“When we heal our land, we are healed also.”
― The Marrow Thieves
― The Marrow Thieves
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