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Reading for the 2nd time
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“The power of story is greater than power of conversation in a way.”
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“I was young and love to me was a fuse that was lit, not a garden that was grown. Love was not concerned with any deep knowledge of its object, of their wants and dreams, but mainly with the joy felt in their presence and the sickness felt in their departure.”
― The Water Dancer
― The Water Dancer
“Racism, I maintain, was not simply a convention for ordering the relations of European to non-European peoples but has its genesis in the “internal” relations of European peoples.”
― Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
― Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
“The tree of our family was parted - branches here, roots there - parted for their lumber.”
― The Water Dancer
― The Water Dancer
“I’m a true believer in story. I think when you just tell people to think, people tend to get resistant and defensive and feel like you’re accusing them of not thinking. But when you tell a story, and you draw them in through allowing them to see through the eyes of a different person, and when you can affect their feelings and emotions — whether it's making them laugh, or making them scared, or making them scream, or making them cheer — then you have them on a starting point, already, to think about why they had those visceral reactions.”
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