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First a playroom (where the silence was softer), then a refuge (from her brothers’ fright), soon the place became the point.
“Oftentimes, just to go away,” wrote John Dollard, a Yale scholar studying the South in the 1930s, “is one of the most aggressive things that another person can do,”
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
“He was different now. Or maybe he was different with someone other than her.”
― The Mothers
― The Mothers
“When I say that only whites can be racist, I mean that in the United States, only whites have the collective social and institutional power and privilege over”
― White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
― White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
“First a playroom (where the silence was softer), then a refuge (from her brothers’ fright), soon the place became the point.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“regardless of how high-tech your society might be, “peace” is an endless negotiation among free-acting agents whose wills cannot be engineered. Politics necessarily exist between even two individuals with free will;”
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Eliza’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Eliza’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, and Spirituality
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