Suzette

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“The FHA was particularly concerned with preventing school desegregation. Its manual warned that if children “are compelled to attend school where the majority or a considerable number of the pupils represent a far lower level of society or an incompatible racial element, the neighborhood under consideration will prove far less stable and desirable than if this condition did not exist,” and mortgage lending in such neighborhoods would be risky.”
― Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

“It would appear that this sort of life, excluding “the pains of thought,” lays an individual open to new kinds of oppression. After all, the most effectual way of coping with manipulation or conditioning is to become cognizant of what is happening (and, if possible, to find out who is responsible). To take refuge within one’s inwardness may well be to disarm oneself as a social being, to render oneself doubly vulnerable to the mystifications that legitimate manipulation and conditioning. Under such circumstances, can the self remain inviolable? Or does a kind of inviolability have to be achieved—through critical reflection, in the pain of thought?”
― Maxine Greene, Landscapes of Learning

“Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.”
― Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery