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To listen to a griot was to enter a new world, one where heroes danced across the heavens with spirits in their wake and gods churned mountains into being with a flick of their wrists.
“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
“Social psychologist Susan Fiske writes,“It is a simple principle: People pay attention to those who control their outcomes. In an effort to predict and possibly influence what is going to happen to them, people gather information about those with power.”11”
― Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
― Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were making a noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a noise, and the river was making a noise, but I couldn’t hear a thing. The city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for the good it did me.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“What is addiction, really?” the Swiss psychologist Alice Miller asks. “It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.”
― In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
― In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
“I decided to expect nothing from Buddy Willard. If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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