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For many, empire is the villain—the tyrant, the oppressor, the force of destruction. But for those who’ve benefited from its rule, empire hasn’t always been seen this way.
“I thought all those other categories, like Asian, African American, American Indian, and Latino, were the real races. I thought white was the raceless race—just plain, normal, and one against which all others were measured.”
― Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
― Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
“Racism lives in individuals’ hearts and minds; those in power embed it into institutional policies and practices. Systemic racism touches every aspect of every American life, and skin color determines how.”
― Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
― Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
“[...] careerism is a depressing thing.”
― Tokyo Express
― Tokyo Express
“It's no joke that hospitals are now often referred to as the worst place to get well. Superbugs are looking out the hospital windows, licking their chops at the feast that awaits them in this era of superbugs without borders.”
― The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
― The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
“Lee Mellon told me that he was born in Meridian, Mississippi, and grew up in Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina, 'Near Asheville,' he said. 'That's Thomas Wolfe country.'
'Yeah,' I said.
Lee Mellon didn't have any Southern accent. 'You don't have much of a Southern accent,' I said.
'That's right, Jesse. I read a lot of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Kant when I was a kid,' Lee Mellon said.
I guess in some strange way that was supposed to get rid of a Southern accent. Lee Mellon thought so, anyway. I couldn't argue because I had never tried a Southern accent against the German philosophers.”
― A Confederate General from Big Sur
'Yeah,' I said.
Lee Mellon didn't have any Southern accent. 'You don't have much of a Southern accent,' I said.
'That's right, Jesse. I read a lot of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Kant when I was a kid,' Lee Mellon said.
I guess in some strange way that was supposed to get rid of a Southern accent. Lee Mellon thought so, anyway. I couldn't argue because I had never tried a Southern accent against the German philosophers.”
― A Confederate General from Big Sur
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