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“What is art but another way of exerting power? It was inevitable.”
“Since East Turkestan is home to large deposits of oil and natural gas, as well as mineral deposits and vast cotton fields that all add to the [Chinese Communist Party's} coffers, the stakes of a potential independence movement in the Uyghur region were high.”
― A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs
― A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs
“Confidence is necessary in life - to leave your parents' home, to begin a new job, to travel. But too much confidence leads to complacency, and to believing that my way is the only way, that my worldview is the view.”
― Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
― Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
“In that spring of 1925, a posse of hooded Klansmen on horseback rode up to the house of Earl Little in Omaha, Nebraska. He was a Baptist preacher who led the local chapter of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association...They smashed every window in the house before galloping off into the night. A few days later, the preacher's wife gave birth to a son -- the boy who would become Malcolm X.”
― A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
― A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
“The shape of who you are is an image of heaven and earth," I whispered to the baby, Sun Simiao's words quoted in a book Nurse Jeongsu had gifted me with, an encyclopedia I still perused every year.”
― The Red Palace
― The Red Palace
“Of her mother there is more to say -- a story. She was from that same north Arkansas backwoods and had sisters and brothers. There was rumored to be Osage blood -- oil-well Indians who'd lost it all.”
― Between Them: Remembering My Parents – An Exploration of Memory, Intimacy, and Parental Love
― Between Them: Remembering My Parents – An Exploration of Memory, Intimacy, and Parental Love
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