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Book cover for Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
As a person of color in America, you need to fly to reach the hallowed gates of wealth and mainstream success while others can just walk. “Good” is not good enough. You have to be exceptional, especially when you don’t have the legacy ...more
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Carrie Brownstein
“That’s why all those records from high school sound so good. It’s not that the songs were better—it’s that we were listening to them with our friends, drunk for the first time on liqueurs, touching sweaty palms, staring for hours at a poster on the wall, not grossed out by carpet or dirt or crumpled, oily bedsheets. These songs and albums were the best ones because of how huge adolescence felt then, and how nostalgia recasts it now.”
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Lori Gottlieb
“You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on, and pretending to feel a certain way isn’t one of them.”
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Colum McCann
“Everything falls into the hands of music eventually. The only thing that ever rescued me was listening to a big voice. There are years accumulated in a sound.”
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Anne  Michaels
“I'm naive enough to think that love is always good, no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances. I'm not old enough yet to imagine the instances where this isn't true and where regret outweighs everything.”
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