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Carole Ratzer
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“It’s not, because black people can never be American in the same way Italian and Irish people can. Black skin withstands the melting pot. I want to say . . .” He pauses. “I want to say that discrimination is the father of crime. I want to say that Alton Robinson’s tragedy was that he thought that through crime he could achieve some sort of equality, and that turned out to be a chimera. In the end he wasn’t killed because he got crossways with Paulie Ricca, who was Capone’s successor, but because he was black.”
― If It Bleeds
― If It Bleeds
“When an old man dies, a library burns.”
― If It Bleeds
― If It Bleeds
“It’s from Balzac. ‘Behind every great fortune there is a crime.’ That was the theme I saw, even though the fortune ran through his fingers long before he was shot down in Cicero.”
― If It Bleeds
― If It Bleeds
“If we have to ask a teacher if something is okay, we have forgotten how to be creative and are afraid to be creative because we are afraid of being wrong.”
― The Hyperdoc Handbook: Digital Lesson Design Using Google Apps
― The Hyperdoc Handbook: Digital Lesson Design Using Google Apps
“The weeping elm at the window was murmurous with gossiping doves.”
― Picnic at Hanging Rock
― Picnic at Hanging Rock
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