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Rebecca Mead

"What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a reader has with a particularly cherished book. Most serious readers can point to one book that has a place in their life like the one that 'Middlemarch' has in mine."

Source : Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.184, Broadway Books

Rebecca Mead

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“I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent.”
“Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people used to define that. Is black your experience or the color of your skin? My experience is as a Mexican immigrant, more so than someone like George Lopez. He's from California. But he'll be treated as an immigrant. I am an outsider. MyÂ abuelita,Â my grandmother, didn't speak English. My whole family on my dad's side is in Mexico. I won't ever be called that or treated that way, but it was my experience.”

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“You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.”

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“Beauty is a life-long evolution.”
“The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso.”
“We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.”
“It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.”
“No, Susanna, " he said. "I cannot love you just a little. If that's what you want, you must find a different man." His green eyes were breathtaking in their intensity. His thumb brushed her bottom lip. "Because I can only love you entirely. With everything I am, and everything I ever will be. Body, mind, heart, soul.”

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