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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

by Richard Rothstein

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Sep 04, 2025 02:23PM

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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

by Elaine Scarry

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Sam’s Notes & Highlights

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

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one year after President Obama’s inauguration. It was a time when our country was awash in “post-racialism.”

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Sam’s Quotes

“The reader is always looking for two things in the novel: themselves and transcendence.”
― Walter Mosley, This Year You Write Your Novel

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“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
― A.A. Milne

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“Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

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“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

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