"Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic biography in order to tell a vast story of a people's reinvention of itself and of a nation-the first complete history of the Great Black Migration from start to finish, north, east, west."

-- David Levering Lewis

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“I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.”

Source : "Candidate for change" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2005.
“Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to look at the foot how the burials increased or decreased, and among the Casualties what had happened, rare and extraordinary, in the week current; so as they might take the same as a Text to talk upon in the next company, and withal in the Plague-time, how the Sickness increased or decreased, that the Rich might judg of the necessity of their removal, and Trades-men might conjecture what doings they were likely to have in their respective dealings.”
“Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success”
“Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?”

Source : In a 1960 letter to Natalie Barney, as quoted in "Paris Was a Woman" by Andrea Weiss, (p. 173), 1995.
“Iâ€™ve spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female bodyâ€”and figuring out how to fix it. Iâ€™m dedicating the second half of my life to illuminating everything that can go right with the female body, including teaching women how to truly flourish.”
“Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.”
“His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.”
“we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.”

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