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apartment, which he would consider the perfect form of storage for people,
“They wouldn’t do it without a cause, would they? You must have done something to provoke them.” As if that’s how oppression works.”
― My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
― My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
“That's mostly what being a teenager is all about: growing through the unfair, awkward awfulness of life and pretending it's fun.”
― Boy Meets Depression: Or Life Sucks and Then You Live
― Boy Meets Depression: Or Life Sucks and Then You Live
“Memory,' wrote the Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, is a process of organizing what to forget.”
― The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
― The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
“Most of us are great with change, as long as it was our idea.”
― Still Life
― Still Life
“the way he could walk straight into a party full of people they didn’t know and stick his hand out to a stranger and say, “I’m Nick. This is my wife, Alice.” It was as though he had an amazing skill, like playing a complicated musical instrument, that Alice could never hope to master.”
― What Alice Forgot
― What Alice Forgot
Dismantling the Whitewash
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For 49 years I've read mostly white folks opine on bible, theology, etc. Today I begin a new era - 49 years (let's hope!) with the writings of people ...more
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