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“With GPS you can know your locations without looking out the window, he had said. You can know your location without knowing your location. You can know things without knowing anything. We often proceed as if we know things without a sense of what knowledge even is.”

“No culture can be understood, nor should be defined, by what doesn’t wash away… We must learn to leave room for the rest, for the vast and vanished world of which durable traces form only a tiny part.”

“People tell themselves that they believe in this or that political position. .. but the deeper motivation for their rhetoric … is to shore up their own identity”

No progress cuz this book was stolen from me… rude people in Brookings Oregon…

“Transmigration, he said, was the entire story of people and their long history, archived as chains of information inside the bodies of every living person. No man was not the product of such a chain. Every human was a child of a child of children of mysterious mothers who once lived, and whose secrets we carry. This was our genome.”

Love this book to death

“Will it be legal to poison, mutilate, or infect people — as long as you provide them with food, water, and space to die?” (15)

How will God behave toward us when we’re poor? (10)

Read #2 of this book! This time for class. Notable moments here. Windows into heaven (stars) open up when we left lights, progress, growth, “all those things were too hot and too poor to bother with anymore” (6)

There’s a lot to unpack here

Kinda mid but also kinda relaxing? Some nice stories sometimes

Yall so far this is really giving the book Flipped ; like do yall remember that book?? With like sorta weird girl in love with popular boy in elementary school, popular boy likes her too but kinda cold shoulders her, then they grow up and she becomes like more normal and he becomes more lonely and realizes he loves her but she’s like u missed ur chance. ITS THE SAME!!!

This book wack. Giving flipped but like more adult version. Also did not expect the audiobook to be in an Irish? Scottish? Accent

How holistic admissions in the Ivy League were invented (as opposed to objective entrance exams they had previously) to essentially “prevent white flight” and limit the proportion of Jewish students in response to influx of Jewish immigrants in early 1900s

Danger of monocultures

Miamis history is crazy

Gobsmacked by George Zimmerman auctioning the gun he used to murder Trayvon martin. For $250,000.
Regarding white people defending guns to their grave despite increasing gun suicide rates, mostly in white men: “the racial paranoia of impending invasion makes sense for a people living on stolen land”

“It appears hardworking white people can only know themselves by creating a foil: lazy, good for nothing ****” create a positive view of goodness or worth, rather than negative, one that depends on your standing relative to other people. How immigrants, POC are viewed as “dependent” in context of welfare, but the functioning of this country is dependent on their labor

“There was no demand be had that she might fulfill, nor was he trying to ask for help. He was crying simply because he felt sad.”

This book so fucking wack