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Green Frog: Stories

by Gina Chung (Goodreads Author)

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To Know as We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey

by Parker J. Palmer

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh

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The most unfair part of it, Wallace thinks, is that when you tell white people that something is racist, they hold it up to the light and try to discern if you are telling the truth. As if they can tell by the grain if something is racist ...more

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Chris’s Quotes

“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”
― Sydney J. Harris

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“In fact, puns appear so often and in such diverse forms and cultures throughout history that they appear to reflect something fundamental, enduring and perhaps even universal about human expression.”
― John Pollack, The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics

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“All I know is, the violence rose from the fear like smoke from a fire, and I cannot say whether that violence, even administered in fear and love, sounded the alarm or choked us at the exit.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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“That is the best of what the old heads meant when they spoke of being “politically conscious”—as much a series of actions as a state of being, a constant questioning, questioning as ritual, questioning as exploration rather than the search for certainty.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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“Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal, and there have been major disappointments in recent years.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

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