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Ben Levin
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A Somali, an Egyptian, and a Saudi are asked, “What is your opinion of eating meat?” The Somali said, “What is eating?” The Egyptian said, “What is meat?” And the Saudi said, “What’s an opinion?”
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“The point of this language of “intention” and “personal responsibility” is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. “Good intention” is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“You can’t even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction to learn about dysfunctional white folk doing things that are weird to normal white folks.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery-book.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
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