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ce407e3
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"Augustus, perhaps you'd like to share your fears with the group." "My fears?" "Yes." "I fear oblivion," he said without a moment's pause. "I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark." "Too soon," Isaac said, cracking a smile. "Was that insensitive?" Augustus asked. "I can be pretty blind to other people's feelings."
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isaac
hazel-grace
blind
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John Green |
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3581121
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"Augustus: "I can still dominate your blind ass at Counterinsurgence," Isaac: "I'm pretty sure all asses are blind,"
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isaac
the-fault-in-our-stars
blind
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John Green |
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af05817
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"I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men. I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, "Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?" This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. Of course I am a human being, but there are particular things that happen to me in the world because I am a woman. This same man, by the way, would often talk about his experience as a black man. (To which I should probably have responded, "Why not your experiences as a man or as a human being? Why a black man?")" --
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experiences
woman
human-being
world
blind
silencing
talking
gender
question
systems
oppression
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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92bf04e
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"I can hear you say, "What a horrible, irresponsible bastard!" And you're right. I leap to agree with you. I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me? And wait until I reveal how truly irresponsible I am. Responsibility rests upon recognition, and recognition is a form of agreement."
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invisible-black-men
invisible-man
racists
blind
racism-in-america
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Ralph Ellison |
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23d6254
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That invisibility to which I refer occurs because of a peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come in contact. A matter of the construction of their INNER eyes, those eyes with which they look through their physical eyes upon reality.
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invisible-black-men
invisible-man
racists
blind
racism-in-america
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Ralph Ellison |
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abe99f7
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A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.
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man
face
body
blind
pretty
eyes
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Francine Rivers |
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ab98a3f
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Some sounds are so exquisite - far more exquisite than anything seen. Daff's purr there on my rug, for instance - and the snap and crackle of the fire - and the squeaks and scrambles of mice that are having a jamboree behind the wainscot.
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purring
sounds
sound
blindness
blind
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L.M. Montgomery |
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16af428
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The Americans have no sense of doom, none whatever. They do not recognize doom when they see it.
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giovanni-s-room
james-baldwin
cultural
doom
blind
americans
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James Baldwin |
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33f7fae
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Then too, you're constantly being bumped against by those of poor vision. Or again, you doubt if you really exist. You wonder whether you aren't simply a phantom in other people's minds. Say, a figure in a nightmare which the sleeper tries with all his strength to destroy.
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invisible-black-men
invisible-man
racists
blind
racism-in-america
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Ralph Ellison |
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7408d2b
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As he shook off his servant's grip and staggered heavily to his feet, the sunlight streaming through the outside door struck him full in the face. Samantha gasped. A fresh scar, still red and angry, bisected the corner of his left eye and descended down his cheek in a jagged lightning bolt, drawing the skin around it taut. It had once been an angel's face with the sort of masculine beauty reserved only for princes and seraphim.
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beauty
wounded-hero
blind
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Teresa Medeiros |