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“But I guess that's the thing: we take our memories wherever we go, and what’s left are the ones that stick around, and that’s how we make a life.”
― Memorial
― Memorial
“You have to get clear about the kind of life you can live here. Life can be lived anywhere, but not every life can be lived everywhere.”
― Perfect Peace
― Perfect Peace
“Evidence doesn't always convince people of the truth, [...] especially when the lie is what they prefer.”
― Perfect Peace
― Perfect Peace
“The defining question is whether the discrimination is creating equity or inequity. If discrimination is creating equity, then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“while in Manhattan the buses ran on time, the lights never went out, the death of a single white child in a traffic accident was a page one story, while phony versions of black and Latino life ruled the Broadway roost, making white writers rich—West Side Story, Porgy & Bess, Purlie Victorious—and on it went, the whole business of the white man’s reality lumping together like a giant, lopsided snowball, the Great American Myth, the Big Apple, the Big Kahuna, the City That Never Sleeps, while the blacks and Latinos who cleaned the apartments and dragged out the trash and made the music and filled the jails with sorrow slept the sleep of the invisible and functioned as local color.”
― Deacon King Kong
― Deacon King Kong
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