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When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. “We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother ...more
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

Matthew Desmond
“Mass resistance was possible only when people believed they had the collective capacity to change things. For poor people, this required identifying with the oppressed, and counting yourself among them—which was something most trailer park residents were absolutely unwilling to do.”
Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Yes, but I’m worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialectics of intertextual modernity. Which makes no sense at all. Sometimes I feel that they live in a parallel universe of academia speaking academese instead of English and they don’t really know what’s happening in the real world.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

Svetlana Alexievich
“No one understands a stranger’s tragedy, God willing you might understand your own.”
Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Paul Stamets
“In Oregon, a far larger honey mushroom (Armillaria ostoyae) mycelial mat found on a mountaintop covers more than 2,400 acres and is possibly more than 2,200 years old”
Paul Stamets, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

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