"I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through that door and look at the world in all its grime and torment, and still find something of value, no matter how small."

-- Colum McCann

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“Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ain't solution, however, because reading even at its most intense and verisimilitudinous is vicarious, and once you close the book you're off the hook.”

Source : Marita Golden, Susan Shreve (2011). “Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race”, p.2, Anchor
“When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.”
“A person wearing tinted glasses can avoid the conclusion that the entire world is tinted only by being conscious of the glasses themselves.”

Source : Justo L. Gonzalez (2014). “The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation”, p.3, Harper Collins
“The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.”
“The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.”
“Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...”
“A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.”
“Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and be loved. Love transcends international boundaries and heals the wounds of hatred, racial, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance. It is the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.”

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