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religion and poems that confronted God, for example, we found it useful to look at a February night in 1848 when Emily Dickinson went head-to-head with the formidable founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. What did Emily say about that
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“Fionn learned that to make a poet you need: Fire of Song, Light of Knowledge and the Art of Recitation,”
― History of the Rain
― History of the Rain
“imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”
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“But she was aware that the story you think you know is never the real one. She”
― Euphoria
― Euphoria
“Talk of backlash is just one of the many disguises. In these moments, the country reaches the edge of fundamental transformation and pulls back out of a fear that genuine democracy will mean white people will have to lose something—that they will have to give up their particular material and symbolic standing in the country. That fear, Baldwin understood, is at the heart of the moral psychology of the nation and of the white people who have it by the throat. That fear, not the demand for freedom, arrests significant change and organizes American life. We see it in the eyes of Trump supporters. One hears it in the reticence of the Democratic Party to challenge them directly.”
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
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