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“In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.”
― The Word for World Is Forest
― The Word for World Is Forest
“One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“If this book accomplishes anything it will be to have exposed a number of myths about the American dream, to have disabused readers of the notion that upward mobility is a function of the founders’ ingenious plan, or that Jacksonian democracy was liberating, or that the Confederacy was about states’ rights rather than preserving class and racial distinctions.”
― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
“When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win.”
― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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