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“I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.”
― Leaves of Grass
― Leaves of Grass
“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
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“But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
Amanda’s 2025 Year in Books
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