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"Yeah, back on reading half-finished books. Started reading this one while I was studying physics for a while.
It's a joy to read!" — Feb 26, 2016 07:30PM
"Yeah, back on reading half-finished books. Started reading this one while I was studying physics for a while.
It's a joy to read!" — Feb 26, 2016 07:30PM
“I’m learnin’ one thing good,” she said. “Learnin’ it all a time, ever’ day. If you’re in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help—the only ones.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“(May I point out how much I loathe the distinctions of black, gay or anything that implies anything.) I wanted to find that colorless Island that Charlie Mingus talked about. Like Lee Morgan, I was in search of a new land.”
― Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
― Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
“The more culture is considered a “thing” and not an ongoing coordination of meaning, the less able people are to see their own role in creating that meaning. This restricts their ability to exercise either cultural self-awareness or perspective taking of other cultural worldviews.”
― Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Paradigms, Principles, and Practices
― Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Paradigms, Principles, and Practices
“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“We weren’t cruel, we were ignorant, foolish. Children are ignorant and foolish. But they learn. If they are given a chance to learn.”
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
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