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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4f4490c | How's that training coming along, Griff? Good old Max says you're a natural." Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you about yourself, they were about to fuck you over." | blacks boxing race race-relations training whites | Colson Whitehead | |
| c2b565b | People get rid of plenty when they move--sometimes they're changing not just places but personalities. | castoffs furniture interior-decorating life lives moving personality | Colson Whitehead | |
| b85e5cb | To escape the boundary of the plantation was to escape the fundamental principles of your existence: impossible. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 4cbbc26 | At a certain point he learned the smarter play was to avoid the things that brought you low. | depression life sadness | Colson Whitehead | |
| 0681931 | You can change the law but you can't change people and how they treat each other. Nickel | Colson Whitehead | ||
| ebb0320 | How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch? One learned to focus one's attention. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| bec63ef | Sometimes a slave will be lost in a brief eddy of liberation. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 96e53d7 | the Lieutenant's theory of the barricades. Yes, they were the only vessel strong enough to contain our faith. But then there are the personal barricades, Mark Spitz thought. Since the first person met the second person. The ones that keep other people out and our madness in so we can continue to live. That's the way we've always done it. It's what this country was built on. The plague merely made it more literal, spelled it out in case you .. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 7c7cc00 | Problem was, even if you avoided trouble, trouble might reach out and snatch you anyway. Another student might sniff out a weakness and start something, one of the staff dislikes your smile and knocks it off your face. You might stumble into a bramble of bad luck of the sort that got you here in the first place. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 9cbf7a6 | He ate every miserable spoonful and ever since it struck him that adults are always trying to buy off children to make them forget their bad actions. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 10858fc | Taken individually, the link was not much. But in concert with its fellows, a mighty iron that subjugated millions despite its weakness. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| dbf8170 | Even in death the boys were trouble. | opening-lines | Colson Whitehead | |
| cb39cc2 | Most of those who know the story of the rings in the trees are dead by now. The iron is still there. Rusty. Deep in the heartwood. Testifying to anyone who cares to listen. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 5c15b4b | a small freedom was the worst punishment of all, presenting the bounty of true freedom into painful relief. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 6a482bd | Perhaps his life might have veered elsewhere if the US government had opened the country to colored advancement like they opened the army. But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 513865a | You can change the law but you can't change people and how they treat each other. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 60831ea | There are big forces that want to keep the Negro down, like Jim Crow, and there are small forces that want to keep you down, like other people, and in the face of all those things, the big ones and the smaller ones, you have to stand up straight and maintain your sense of who you are. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 9992701 | eccentric" being a word, Lila Mae notes dryly, that white people use to describe crazy white people of stature)," | Colson Whitehead | ||
| e3ecd85 | The boys could have been many things had they not been ruined by that place. Doctors who cured diseases or perform brain surgery, inventing shit that saves lives. Run for president. All those lost geniuses - sure not all of them were geniuses, Chickie Pete for example was not solving special relativity - but they had been denied even the simple pleasure of being ordinary. Hobbled and handicapped before the race even began, never figuring ou.. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| d89403b | But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 0e39c36 | In here and out there are the same, but in here no one has to act fake anymore. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 882a4ca | When he heard autumn leaves skuttling in the wind, he remembered that chuckle. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| a9656f0 | The boys knew to hide their enthusiasm over little kid things that still had an allure. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 04e851b | In our modern age, cell phone technology permits us to record the constant brutality that occurs all around us; we experience not an uptick in violence but a new kind of witnessing. | technology violence | Colson Whitehead | |
| 844e78a | ravages of prejudice and its bully partner, violence. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| e6b5939 | Fue como si me hubiera caido, desde el borde del mundo, al vacio. Un borde que aparecio asi, como de repente. | secuestro | John Fowles | |
| 1a418af | Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground? | Andrea Dworkin | ||
| c057be4 | then forcing his wife to eat the roasted flesh! Amazingly, two enemies, an English | Terry Deary | ||
| 2a4bcae | Second | Terry Deary | ||
| c5f2c92 | They also thought there were spirits called 'daimons' around. Some were good and protected you; some were evil and could lead you into wickedness. | Terry Deary | ||
| a8a0ef5 | Sometimes an event happens that is so great the world is never the same again after it. In the twentieth century one of the greatest of those events is World War I - fought against Germany from 1914 till 1918. Everyone is in it together. Upper classes and lower classes, women as well as men. This 'mixing' has never happened before and it will change the way the classes look at each other | society war | Terry Deary | |
| 331133d | Why were kings cross? Maybe their trains were late! Some say warrior Queen Boudica was buried under platform 8. | Terry Deary | ||
| 55ed407 | Greeks heard the poems read on stage while a group of dancers performed. Then a clever poet called Aeschylus came along and had a great idea. He put a second reader on stage. Now you had a 'play' -the first drama in the world. | Terry Deary | ||
| 379b84e | Pyramidiots Some history books will tell you that the Egyptians were great at maths - even better than your teacher. Here's why they think the Egyptians were such brainy boffins... People who believe the pyramids have magical secrets are called 'pyramidologists'. They started investigating the pyramids in the 1850s and modern pyramidologists are still selling millions of books around the world. The Horrible Histories truth is ... they are p.. | Terry Deary | ||
| b313543 | CCC wanted everyone to believe that he had done what he set out to do - sailed west to find Japan in the east. He made his men swear an oath... | Terry Deary | ||
| e87e7f1 | love Mary and die... Mad about Mary - 1 Many Scottish lords became Protestant because it gave them a chance to grab more power. But the Earl of Huntly stayed loyal. 'I'll bring the Catholic Church back to three counties!' he boasted. Then he suggested that Mary might like to marry his son, John Gordon. Brilliant idea! Powerful Catholic lord | Terry Deary | ||
| dc19c8e | Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.' John Webster (c.1580-1634), English Jacobean dramatist | Terry Deary | ||
| 5c26f90 | There is proof that these early kings were taller and had much larger heads than the peasants of Egypt! | Terry Deary | ||
| ebab4fc | The Egyptians treated her like a pharaoh even though she was from a Greek family and a woman. She worshipped the gods of Egypt. | Terry Deary | ||
| db1cc82 | But Djoser was king of South Egypt and North Egypt. To keep the people in both parts of the country happy he had to be buried in two different tombs. His body was entombed in the north, and his canopic jars had their own temple 100 metres to the south. | Terry Deary | ||
| 86f9b7d | The English went out and conquered a quarter of the Earth just to escape the rain. They always went for the hot places - Australia, Africa, India. But here's the funny thing about the English ... many of them like to take a bit of their Englishness with them wherever they go. All around the world these sad people build English pubs and serve 'Full English Breakfasts' in the morning and 'Fish and Chips' for lunch or dinner (or both). Some of.. | Terry Deary | ||
| 51f4ae2 | Doctor Philip | Terry Deary | ||
| 014ef2c | Yet the Romans did something the heart-ripping Aztecs and the Spanish burners didn't do ... they killed people for fun! The Romans made murder into a sport. They built wonderful buildings like the Colosseum, filled them with happy Romans and then massacred thousands of people and animals for entertainment. | Terry Deary | ||
| ddadd69 | This is a bit like bribing the other team's best players to leave the pitch as soon as you start the match! Not much of a game!) | Terry Deary |