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Super eye-opening to read about how the Nazis were inspired by Jim Crow laws in the US.

p. 201 "we flutter on dusty moth wings toward the effulgence with no understanding of why we do it. Perhaps when we see a woman with the aspect of an angel, our souls are tricked into following her, mistaking her for a guide to paradise."

p. 283 "Perhaps I can do this. I have help, I have enough money, I have love, I have work, and I have medicine if I need it. Maybe they that sow in tears actually shall reap in joy. Perhaps I can do this too."

p. 109 "Is that what I'm supposed to do? Spend my time keeping a man?"
"They worth keeping, Sula."
"They ain't worth more than me."

p. 109 "Well I guess that's it. You own the world and the rest of us is renting. You ride the pony and we shovel the shit."

p. 93 "The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived outwitted, triumphed over."

p.125 "We are all migrants through time."

p.382-3 "The calculation of utility and the resolution of social disputes through civilized debate are behavioral utopias, not descriptions of what we are....The concept of Homo sensus sapiens allows us to realize that we are at a point somewhere between overconfidence in our rational capacities and submission to our instincts."