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De Anna
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I’ve come to believe that everyone has some type of magic inside them. If a person can find their magic and lovingly cultivate it, they’ll truly feel alive every day.
“Ever since my youth on the receiving end of grown men’s knuckles I’d always wondered how they would die;”
― God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
― God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
“I decided to expect nothing from Buddy Willard. If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Old measures of health not only have failed to improve significantly but have stayed the same: some have even worsened. Mainstream newspapers and magazines often report disease in an ethnocentric manner that shrouds its true cost among African Americans. For example, despite the heavy emphasis on genetic ailments among blacks, fewer than 0.5 percent of black deaths—that’s less than one death in two hundred—can be attributed to hereditary disorders such as sickle-cell anemia. A closer look at the troubling numbers reveals that blacks are dying not of exotic, incurable, poorly understood illnesses nor of genetic diseases that target only them, but rather from common ailments that are more often prevented and treated among whites than among blacks.”
― Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
― Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
“We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body. —King Lear”
― We Are Not Ourselves
― We Are Not Ourselves
“You know Harpo and Sofia baby girl real sick? he say. Naw, I didn’t, I say. I point to Henrietta in the crowd. There she is over there, I say. She look just fine. Yeah, she look fine, he say, but she got some kind of blood disease. Blood sort of clot up in her veins every once in a while, make her sick as a dog. I don’t think she gon make it, he say.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
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