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“To make that decision, we will have to avoid the trap of placing the burden of our national sins on the shoulders of Donald Trump. We need to look inward. Trump is us. Or better, Trump is you.”
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
“Specific, definite, concrete, particular details—these are the life of fiction. Details (as every good liar knows) are the stuff of persuasiveness.”
― Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide to Narrative Craft
― Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide to Narrative Craft
“SONG OF QUIETNESS
Drink deep, drink deep of quietness,
And on the margins of the sea
Remember not thine old distress
Nor all the miseries to be.
Calmer than mists, and cold
As they, that fold on fold
Up the dim valley are rolled,
Learn thou to be.”
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Drink deep, drink deep of quietness,
And on the margins of the sea
Remember not thine old distress
Nor all the miseries to be.
Calmer than mists, and cold
As they, that fold on fold
Up the dim valley are rolled,
Learn thou to be.”
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“Conceptual metaphors generally ‘outlive’ the specific words and expressions that involve them.”
― Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse
― Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse
“Douglass argued for the fundamental humanity of African American people: “When men oppress their fellow-men, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.”
― Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
― Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
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