"The cause of jewish 'whiteness' was thus advanced by keeping 'them over there.' And better still 'them over there waring against 'natives' and savage"The cause of jewish 'whiteness' was thus advanced by keeping 'them over there.' And better still 'them over there waring against 'natives' and savages'."
"The least reflective of them say 'this is not america' but some of them suspect that it IS America and there is great pain in understanding that without your consent you are complicit in a great crime. In learning that the whole game was rigged in your favour."
"They were raised under the story that the jewish people were the ultimate victims of history- but they had been confronted with an incredible truth that there was no ultimate victim. That victims and victimizes were ever flowing."
"We're here." He said. "The question is can there be a way to have the right to self determination for Israeli's and to Palestinians?" I think the answer is yes. There has to be. I mean, there's no other way- but I do think there are very dangerous things that have grown out of this concept of Jewish nationality, which has transformed into "Jewish Superiority" or "Jewish Supremacy", which goes beyond Kahane or Goldstein [Meir Kahane & Baruch Goldstein]."
"The weakness in me is always talking- but so are my ancestors."
"The statues & pagentry can fool you. They look like symbols of wars long settled, fought on behalf of men long dead. But their redemption is not about honouring a past. It's about killing a future."
"'The civil war hasn't been told accurately, in history books.' Griffith asserted. 'Only the winning side in the war ever gets to tell its story." This was an exaggeration, the kind of inversion that power uses to justify itself. The way the bully pretends to be the victim to add virtue to his violence. But the losers of the civil war were not victims."
"When I started writing, it felt essential to think about white people as readers as little as possible. To reduce them in my mind. To resist the temptation to translate. I think that was correct. What has been surprising, pleasantly so, is that there really is no translation needed. That going deeper actually reveals the human. Get to the general through the specific."
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you- that something wonderful often happens- and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old-- whose tyrannies are legislative."
"Morrison presents a black woman aspiring to white beauty. But not just a vague, abstract, white beauty. Jean Harlow is the anchor for Morrison's claim that 'physical beauty is probably the most destructive idea in human thought. It is a grand pronouncement - made grander by use of contrast."...more
I appreciated the comment below "If John Green writes it, I’m reading it." And I so thoroughly agree.
I need to go into the book again and dig up my cI appreciated the comment below "If John Green writes it, I’m reading it." And I so thoroughly agree.
I need to go into the book again and dig up my comments, but I especially loved learning about Henry's life and experience. About 'Virtuous Cycles' and 'Vicious Cycles' and how they echo on and on- affecting lives both negatively and positively. I am going to give it a re-read and examine how I can align myself for the best impact- both individually and collaboratively....more
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