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“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
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“The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“The trigger for white rage, inevitably, is black advancement. It is not the mere presence of black people that is the problem; rather, it is blackness with ambition, with drive, with purpose, with aspirations, and with demands for full and equal citizenship. It is blackness that refuses to accept subjugation, to give up. A formidable array of policy assaults and legal contortions has consistently punished black resilience, black resolve.9 And”
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
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