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“So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.”
― The Country of the Pointed Firs
― The Country of the Pointed Firs
“Racist ideas love believers, not thinkers.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“Words matter, and the fantastic has multiple resonant connotations. The fantastic captures the wonder of stepping into a world-that-never-was, and immersing yourself in it in a way that speculative fiction does not.”
― The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
― The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
“The good news is that racist and antiracist are not fixed identities. We can be a racist one minute and an antiracist the next. What we say about race, what we do about race, in each moment, determines what -- not who -- we are.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“When I went in again the little house had suddenly grown lonely, and my room looked empty as it had the day I came. I and all my belongings had died out of it, and I knew how it would seem when Mrs. Todd came back and found her lodger gone. So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.”
― The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
― The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
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