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Ties
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Ties is a novel full of containers, both literal and symbolic. In spite of them, things go missing.
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“Hating, after all, was a drier form of drowning.”
― The Woman Next Door
― The Woman Next Door
“I have always been more appalled by man’s apathy in the face of horror than by the horror itself.”
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“He also knew that there is no escape from power like his, no exit, no way out of the predicament that being always on creates; there is only death.”
― The Rope
― The Rope
“Being privileged doesn't mean that you are always wrong and people without privilege are always right. It means that there is a good chance you are missing a few very important pieces of the puzzle.”
― So You Want to Talk About Race
― So You Want to Talk About Race
“Disadvantaged white people are not erased by discussions of disadvantages facing people of color, just as brain cancer is not erased by talking about breast cancer. They are two different issues with two different treatments, and they require two different conversations.”
― So You Want to Talk About Race
― So You Want to Talk About Race
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