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for one’s children.” Norton provided no empirical evidence to substantiate her position that certain “ghetto” Blacks were deficient in any of these values.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
We begin to face the ways in which we are complicit in this slow apocalypse, within and without. Only from such a place of loss and longing can we begin remembering ourselves home.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
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Jessica Anya Blau • Mary Jane: A Novel
It is one of the terrible parts of disaster, our complicity: the way we glamorize it and make it consumable; the way the news turns disasters into ready-made cinema; the way war movies, which mean to critique war, can really only glorify war.
Elisa Gabbert • The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
Back in Brooklyn, a poet-nurse to the Union dying writes: A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Jørgen never reads these words.