The people who were already here when we came knew this. They knew how forests hold the memory of life.”
“Living every day in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“When I read, I could forget.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“The Great Migration would not end until the 1970s, when the South began finally to change—the whites-only signs came down, the all-white schools opened up, and everyone could vote. By then nearly half of all black Americans—some forty-seven percent—would be living outside the South, compared to ten percent when the Migration began.”
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
“It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.”
― The Secret Scripture
― The Secret Scripture
“To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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