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“Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different races or classes are known to you because they make themselves known. In the simplest terms, art humanizes. It opens the circuit of empathy. And once that process happens, it's that much harder to think of people as part of a policy or a statistic. Art reverses the alienation that can creep into society.”
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“...you know everybody has a turn, and you just try to find something interesting every day to make you glad it hasn't happened yet.”
― Ghost Summer
― Ghost Summer
“It is so important to be conscious even when it makes you realize how much negative stuff you have enjoyed all your life until you realized it was all anti you.”
― Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons, & Love Affairs
― Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons, & Love Affairs
“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
“We all know that there are language forms that are considered impolite and out of order, no matter what truths these languages might be carrying. If you talk with a harsh, urbanized accent and you use too many profanities, that will often get you barred from many arenas, no matter what you’re trying to say. On the other hand, polite, formal language is allowed almost anywhere even when all it is communicating is hatred and violence. Power always privileges its own discourse while marginalizing those who would challenge it or that are the victims of its power.”
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Aleatha’s 2025 Year in Books
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