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Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

by Alice Kaplan

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Pardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul

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Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

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“To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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“I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.”
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

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“The Negro’s economic problem was compounded by the emergence and growth of automation. Since discrimination and lack of education confined him to unskilled and semi-skilled labor, the Negro was and remains the first to suffer in these days of great technological development.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

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“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”
― W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

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“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

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