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Becky Rice
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You can wrap a shotgun in flowers, but that doesn’t make the blast less lethal.
“There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you.”
― Women Talking
― Women Talking
“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Maybe you survive cancer, maybe you survive the Holocaust, but life’ll get you every time.”
― Young Jane Young
― Young Jane Young
“But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indelible—this is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“When Salma peers into her daughter’s coffee cup, she knows instantly she must lie.”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
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