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"Going to have to turn in the audiobook before I am done, but I own the hardback as a backup!" — Oct 24, 2023 05:02PM
"Going to have to turn in the audiobook before I am done, but I own the hardback as a backup!" — Oct 24, 2023 05:02PM
A man could have so much anger, but a woman, no, a woman could not live with that much rage—that was how the world worked.
“Fed on a media diet of really bad news, we live in a perpetual state of repressed panic. We are paralyzed by bad knowledge, from which the only escape is playing dumb. Ignorance becomes empowering because it enables people to live. Stupidity becomes proactive, a political statement. Our collective norm.”
― My Year of Meats
― My Year of Meats
“Sometimes, she knew, the most important battles for dignity, pride, and progress were fought with the simplest of actions. It”
― Hidden Figures: Young Readers' Edition of Hidden Figures—Celebrating African American Women Pioneers at NASA
― Hidden Figures: Young Readers' Edition of Hidden Figures—Celebrating African American Women Pioneers at NASA
“...you don't have the memory of your future; {that}the future is indeed dark, which is the best thing it could be; and that, in the end, we always act in the dark. The effects of your actions may unfold in ways you cannot foresee or even imagine.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
“To spin the web and not be caught in it, to create the world, to create your own life, to rule your fate, to name the grandmothers as well as the fathers, to draw nets and not straight lines, to be a maker as well as a cleaner, to be able to sing and not be silenced, to take down the veil and appear: all these are the banners on the laundry line I hang out.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
“English was such a dense, tight language. So many hard letters, like miniature walls. Not open with vowels the way Spanish was. Our throats open, our mouths open, our hearts open. In English, the sounds were closed. They thudded to the floor. And yet, there was something magnificent about it. Profesora Shields explained that in English there was no usted, no tu. There was only one word—you. It applied to all people. No one more distant or more familiar. You. They. Me. I. Us. We. There were no words that changed from feminine to masculine and back again depending on the speaker. A person was from New York. Not a woman from New York, not a man from New York. Simply a person.”
― The Book of Unknown Americans
― The Book of Unknown Americans
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