"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."

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Source : Marita Golden, Susan Shreve (2011). “Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race”, p.2, Anchor

Marita Golden

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“Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.”
“A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.”

Source : Lawrence Fertig (1961). “Prosperity through freedom”
“The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world.”
“If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.”
“There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.”
“The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.”
“I never took a lesson until I was 20, and I'm glad I had those years living the life of a normal person. I don't consider that time wasted.”
“And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.”

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