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Simmi remembers a day when a young boy came up to the house with tears in his eyes and handed her a Bible. “You don’t believe in the same God we do and I don’t want you to go to hell,” he said. She took it and hid it under her pillow. That
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“One foreign correspondent came up to be friendly. He asked this man what he should think about what Khomeini had said. How seriously should he take it? Was it just a rhetorical flourish or something genuinely dangerous? “Oh, don’t worry too much,” the journalist said. “Khomeini sentences the president of the United States to death every Friday afternoon.”
― Joseph Anton: A Memoir
― Joseph Anton: A Memoir
“A comfortable prison was still a prison.”
― Joseph Anton: A Memoir
― Joseph Anton: A Memoir
“If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.”
― Red Azalea: A Memoir
― Red Azalea: A Memoir
“I remember sitting in my seventh-grade French class and not having any idea why I was there. I did not know any French people, and nothing around me suggested I ever would. France was a rock rotating in another galaxy, around another sun, in another sky that I would never cross. Why, precisely, was I sitting in this classroom?”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own. Then we could never drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, or napalm on Vietnam, or wage war anywhere, because wars, especially in our time, are always wars against children, indeed our children.”
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
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