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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7ab85a9 | Look at these buttons," one soldier said, fingering his gray wool jacket. "I soaked them overnight in a saucer filled with urine." Chemicals in the urine oxidized the brass, giving it the patina of buttons from the 1860s. "My wife woke up this morning, sniffed the air and said, 'Tim, you've been peeing on your buttons again." | Tony Horwitz | ||
| 1c33a38 | At one stop in New Zealand, an Englishman bartered for sex. He was presented with a boy; when he complained, he was presented with another. The English related this incident with amusement, as a cruel joke. But the Maori may have supposed that homosexuality was the English norm. How else to account for the absence among them of women and children? | Tony Horwitz | ||
| 82ff4a1 | eight storage tanks were | Tony Horwitz | ||
| 4b302d6 | looked about as romantic and welcoming as a tar pit. I later learned that producers of the 1962 Marlon Brando film Mutiny on the Bounty had imported white sand from America so Matavai Bay would match the Hollywood image of a tropical island. | Tony Horwitz | ||
| 2adef33 | I came here from Kansas," he announced to his captive. "This is a slave state. I want to free all the Negroes in this state. I have possession now of the United States armory, and if the citizens interfere with me, I must only burn the town and have blood." | Tony Horwitz | ||
| 3c04e4b | In principle, rememberance of the War could be a way to probe these scars, many of which trailed back to the 1860's. But reenactments did precisely the opposite, blandly reconciling North and South in s grand spectacle that glorified battlefield valor and the stoicism of civilians. | Tony Horwitz | ||
| 4708008 | I found myself unexpectedly moved, less by the memory of Cook than by the people gathered to honor him. The British were brilliant at this sort of ceremony: sincere, stoic, and understated - nothing like cynical Australians or syrupy Americans. Watching these few dozen faces lashed by freezing rain, their breath clouding as they uttered "God Save the Queen," I caught a glimpse of the grit and pride that had sustained Cook and his men, and t.. | Tony Horwitz | ||
| 019c34e | Elijah gives | Tony Horwitz | ||
| 299371a | A vale of humility between two mountains of conceit. | Tony Horwitz | ||
| 0363e1b | The world of the rural poor remained what it had been for generations: a day's walk in radius, a tight, well-trod loop between home, field, church, and, finally, a crowded family grave plot. | Tony Horwitz | ||
| bc2292d | with a | Tony Horwitz | ||
| 6fa875a | Olmsted's initial faith in reasoned discourse had also waned. In the course of his travels, the South's "leading men" had struck him as implacable: convinced of the superiority of their caste-bound society, intent on expanding it, and utterly contemptuous of the North. "They are a mischievous class--" | Tony Horwitz | ||
| cd624fb | They forgot about us women!" When laughter broke out, she countered, "Do I look like I'm joking?" | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 2430312 | By discussing "spreadable media," we aim to facilitate a more nuanced account of how and why things spread and to encourage our readers to adopt and help build a more holistic and sustainable model for understanding how digital culture operates." | Henry Jenkins | ||
| 2e75468 | The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published | Henry Jenkins | ||
| 351546a | Buckingham argues that young people's lack of interest in news and their disconnection from politics reflects their perception of disempowerment. "By and large, young people are not defined by society as political subjects, let alone as political agents. Even in the areas of social life" | Henry Jenkins | ||
| 7e6d61e | Eddy guessed her to be middle-aged, but like most women of color she wore her age well. | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 619652d | Jake's mustache | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 07de620 | After putting Tonio to bed, Billie sat on her verandah as had become her custom each evening. She was very happy for Alanza. Although Billie had only met Max once, she'd liked him and decided he had to be a very special man for Alanza to want to be his wife, but her happiness was dampened by her own reality. Prince knew where she was. The news wasn't surprising but it was unsettling. She'd been serious about using everything in her power to.. | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| fac6d80 | She didn't want to have to spend her days battling her reactions to those male eyes of his, but then again, maybe she'd build up an immunity to them, the way children built up an immunity to the pox. | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 14bf768 | Queen Calafia | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| a479c5a | Las sergas de Esplandian, | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 3737843 | Archer got the distinct impression that he'd offended her. An offended whore? | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 0dcd18a | They'd also considered themselves distinct enough from the rest of the Blacks in the country to have met with Lincoln during the war in an effort to have themselves declared a separate class and thus eligible for the rights inherent in such a designation, but the effort had failed. | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| fbb31b3 | Livy says when her mama and papa are happy she hears them jumping on the bed at night. Are you going to jump on the bed? | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 81f5222 | while still another promised to find out if it was true that she ate raw skinned squirrels for breakfast and slept outside in a tepee. | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| db87b70 | She didn't believe that anyone should be made to spend the entire time on earth as property of someone else. No matter what it took, she was determined to see them free before she went to her grave. | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 5257b0a | I'd say it was more like The Real Senior Citizens of Henry Adams. | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 1f3dee4 | I hear you're in line to inherit your uncle's wealth. That makes you quite the heiress. Not many Colored women can claim that." She" | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 251fba9 | Before she could put Paula in her place, a beautifully attired older woman standing near her said pointedly, "Miss July, please don't judge we Philadelphians by this graceless visitor from Memphis." | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| fa8661f | Since he preferred to sleep naked as Poseidon, | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 6f7493c | a good | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 06bb3cd | Thank you for loving me, Kent, because if I was married to him, I would have killed him so many years ago, I'd be paroled by now. | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 63ff61a | But you've got swag." "Yes, I do, because I'm from Detroit, and it's in the" | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 587424b | But you've got swag." "Yes, I do, because I'm from Detroit, and it's in the water." | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| fff5fe3 | You can't be me. I'm already taken. You can be yourself, though." "But you've got swag." "Yes, I do, because I'm from Detroit, and it's in the water." | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| f9ebf3b | Because you're the county's matriarch. You're loved, respected, and there may not be enough of you left for your family to bury if we have to extract you from a flipped over, burning truck. Don't put your people through that." Tamar" -- | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 4b65a63 | Olivia handed Cara the bowl of ice cream. "You finish it. Life would be so much easier if Malloy would go out onto the plains and let himself be eaten by a bear." | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 19f2ca5 | This is senior citizen profiling and I will not put up with it one more minute." A" | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| bd5ab2d | Black Spaniard by the name of Estabanico. He, | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| a24a936 | Women can't advance if they pick up their skirts and run every time a man growls." Dix" | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 48f32e6 | Her five-feet seven-inch frame | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 9c5ca45 | She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine points of what a woman of the nineteenth century could achieve. | Beverly Jenkins | ||
| 98eea85 | Men were surprised by her unconventional ways all the time. They | Beverly Jenkins |