Susie can’t figure out yet, the women among ’em begin to keen, that high-pitched wail they make that doesn’t sound like anything one ever heard in the white world. Me and Susie are used to the keening, but we can see that it sends shivers
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“I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community-and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.... Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined.... Finally, [the nation] is imagined as a community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately, it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willing to die for such limited imaginings.”
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“Love is not a finite emotion.
We don’t have only so much to share.
Our hearts create love as we need it.”
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We don’t have only so much to share.
Our hearts create love as we need it.”
― Origin
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
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