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“It was I who had failed in my understanding, you see. Life holds a sanctity for them (referring to Solomon Islanders) we can scarcely begin to imagine; it therefore struck them as absurd that someone would choose to end it. A great ludicrous act. In any case, it was then I recognized that my own values - the tenets I hold dear as an Englishman - they were not the only, nor the best values in existence. I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something. Everything is bizarre, and everything has value. Or if not value, at least merits investigation.”
― Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

“We met the children where they were in order to get them where they needed to be.”
― Kristine Barnett

“Well, Kernel, they kilt us but they ain't whupped us yit, air they?”
― William Faulkner

“Indifference is the curse of this age. Indifference is evil, and it couldn't be farther from the heart of God.

Afterword - On Digging a Well p. 359”
― Charles Martin, Water from My Heart