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STRANGE stood in Chris Wilson’s bedroom, examining the objects on his dresser. There was a cigar box holding cuff links, a crucifix on a chain, a Mason’s ring with a black onyx stone, ticket stubs from the MCI Center and RFK, and a pickup
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I love this, because it reminds me of my own room in my parents' house in Washington, D.C., and because I think there is some universality in parents wanting to preserve a space in which they remember their children...before you know it, the children are adults, and I think parents often struggle with that.
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― The Song of the Lark
― The Song of the Lark
“Come to the edge," he said.
They said, "We are afraid."
Come to the edge," he said.
They came.
He pushed them...and they flew.”
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They said, "We are afraid."
Come to the edge," he said.
They came.
He pushed them...and they flew.”
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“There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives...”
― Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
― Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
“There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.”
― The Shame of the Nation
― The Shame of the Nation
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Samuel’s 2024 Year in Books
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