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Carol is on page 68 of 208 of Hunger
Afterwards, she ignored me as she swept around the house, her full lips closed in a faint sneer, with an expression of great privacy. She had the ability to become impenetrable through sheer volition.
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Carol
Carol is on page 66 of 208 of Hunger
There was a hole in our house, like a great mouth, filled with love words and lost objects.
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Carol
Carol is on page 62 of 208 of Hunger
As I looked at my daughter’s face, I began to understand that to love another was to be a custodian of that person’s decline — to know this fate, hold onto it, and live.
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Carol
Carol is on page 56 of 208 of Hunger
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Carol
Carol is on page 41 of 208 of Hunger
I remembered the night of Tian’s brilliant recital — we had been so lighthearted, so happy, walking arm in arm through the sparkling street. We had inventoried our desires, caressing and counting them as if they were prayer beads. It must have been this admission of hope that had been our downfall.
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Carol
Carol is on page 20 of 208 of Hunger
Behind this painted wall, beneath this layer of new sheathing, hides the story of our lives together. I have been silent many years, and my daughters have chosen to forget, but our family story lingers here. It waits under the floor; it has slid into the crawl space, wound around the stubborn beams and girders that were already old thirty years ago, when Tian and I first came to live in Brooklyn.
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Carol
Carol is on page 303 of 331 of Dead and Alive
But I wonder if we don’t assume too much when we imagine we can ever know in advance what kind of a sentence will reach a suffering person in their suffering. How can we be sure which sentences will give a suffering person strength for the fight? Nelson Mandela read Soul on Ice in that cell on Robben Island. He also read the Collected Works of William Shakespeare.
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Carol
Carol is on page 282 of 331 of Dead and Alive
And the more precisely you describe and understand the past the less likely you are to misread and vulgarize and misapprehend the present. The narcissism of the present is that it wants the past to conform to its present demands. You can’t learn the lessons of the past if you rewrite them in the retelling.
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Carol
Carol is on page 279 of 331 of Dead and Alive
People reveal more about themselves in one week on Instagram than I’ve done on the page in twenty years.
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Carol
Carol is on page 238 of 331 of Dead and Alive
[A] large part of the wonder of Hilary [Mantel] was that she…never let go of any part of herself. They were all still alive and pulsating inside her: the angry child who hated childhood but loved the beaches of Budleigh, the young woman eager for escape, the potential mother, the medium, the healthy person, the ex-wife, the unknown novelist, the lawyer, historian, journalist. She was populated by many ghosts.
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Carol
Carol is on page 181 of 331 of Dead and Alive
Inequality has also proved ruinous for culture, universities, the cities, the country, farmers, teachers, doctors, the police, the working classes, the lower middle classes and, at this point, even a fair whack of the rich middle class, who find themselves … sounding deranged as they complain about being potentially priced out of a private school that more than 90% of people will never attend.
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Carol
Carol is on page 165 of 331 of Dead and Alive
I hope it continues to be [Kara Walker’s] self-defined job to gather all the ruins of her own, and our, history — everything abject and beautiful, holy and unholy— into one place, without perfect alignment, without needing to be seen to be good, so that she might make art from it. And thus stand up for the subconscious, for the unsaid and unsayable, for the historically and personally indigestible…
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Carol
Carol is on page 149 of 331 of Dead and Alive
It is no exaggeration to say that the only thing I ever learned about slavery during my British education was that ‘we’ ended it. Even more extraordinary to me now is how many second-generation Caribbean kids in the UK grew up, in the 1970s and 1980s, with the bizarre notion that our families were somehow native to ‘the islands’, had always been there, even as we pored over the history of ‘American slavery.’
— Feb 24, 2026 08:58AM 1 comment
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Carol
Carol is on page 138 of 331 of Dead and Alive
To read Black England is to discover that many imperfect and blinkered people, black and white, enslaved and free, with all kinds of dubious or complex motivations, struggled for hundreds of years to end a global system of capital so large that no element of English life was not in some mode driven by it. They did it. Heaven and earth did not immediately follow — but one version of hell did end.
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Carol
Carol is on page 135 of 331 of Dead and Alive
As cathartic as it is to prosecute dead people, after the fact — in that popular courtroom called ‘The Right Side of History’ — when we hold up a mirror to the past, what we should see most clearly is our own reflection. The judgment goes both ways.
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Carol
Carol is on page 9 of 331 of Dead and Alive
It would be interesting to discover how many artworks in the Kunstkammer were crafted by a woman’s hands. I’m going to guess zero? That’s one thing the Old World and the New World had in common: women’s hands were filled with babies.
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Carol
Carol is on page 8 of 331 of Dead and Alive
For art, unlike power, can never be wholly unidirectional, artists themselves being at once too voracious and impure in their methods. Whether members of dominant or subjected communities, they will prove capable of appropriation, hybridization, adaptation. To put it another way, while the master isn’t looking, many interesting things will happen with his tools.
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Carol
Carol is on page 193 of 482 of Independent People
Nothing in life is so beautiful as the night before what is yet to be.
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Carol
Carol is on page 132 of 482 of Independent People
In his contradictions he was as much an enigma as the country itself: a religious devotee out of spite at the soullessness of men who thought of nothing but dogs and sheep, a scientific breeder of sheep because of his contempt for sheep, the Icelandic pastor of a thousand years’ folk-stories, his presence alone was a comfortable reassurance that all was as it should be.
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