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"I've been way too scared to interrogate the history of slavery and Muslims, truthfully. So much emphasis is placed upon prophetic companions like Bilal (who was a black man and a freed slave) and a lot of dancing around the topic because confronting the past makes us deeply uncomfortable.
Anyway, this is a personal rec. from the husband who encouraged me to, finally, confront our history, and where we go from here." — Feb 05, 2024 02:14PM
"I've been way too scared to interrogate the history of slavery and Muslims, truthfully. So much emphasis is placed upon prophetic companions like Bilal (who was a black man and a freed slave) and a lot of dancing around the topic because confronting the past makes us deeply uncomfortable.
Anyway, this is a personal rec. from the husband who encouraged me to, finally, confront our history, and where we go from here." — Feb 05, 2024 02:14PM
“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“...I thought at last that it was time to roll up the crumpled skin of the day, with its arguments and its impressions and its anger and its laughter, and cast it into the hedge.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
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