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The death of the public intellectual
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You’re becoming a theory-slinging, expert-quoting, knowledge-throwing lovecat, and that’s what makes you stand out from the pack, and that’s why others keep calling on you.
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Annie Bell Green Eady, although she gave herself the nickname Mammie and went by it her whole life. She was Nearest’s granddaughter.
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Anthony began life as a shy Quaker girl—given to melancholy, “fragility,” and extreme self-doubt.
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Annie, only stabbed.
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“Lu, don’t you have any friends your own age to hang out with?” That was cruel. AJ knew I didn’t. Although I did have a plan to take care of that, a strategy for transformation that would make me the most popular girl in the third grade.
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Remember, kids watch us for a living. What kind of lessons are you teaching through your actions?
Esther Wojcicki • How to Raise Successful People
“You’re thirteen billion years old?” said Phoebe. “More like a billion and a half.” “I don’t— You know what? Never mind.”