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My main argument is precisely that we need to resist the knee-jerk reactions that come so readily to mind. Before we can answer those questions in anything other than the broadest outline, we need a time of lament, of restraint, of
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“Jim Crow wasn't nothing but slavery, wrapped up in a nice little gift card." -Rev. John Kennard”
― Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
― Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
“Live so that the world will need you,
Daily tread the path of light,
Keep a bag of sunshine with you,
Be a jewel pure and bright.”
― Poetic Pearls
Daily tread the path of light,
Keep a bag of sunshine with you,
Be a jewel pure and bright.”
― Poetic Pearls
“I know now that if we choose to keep any part of what is behind us, we must take all of it, hold each moment up to the light like a photograph.”
― Bellocq's Ophelia
― Bellocq's Ophelia
“the betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. —JAMES BALDWIN”
― The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
― The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
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