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Ties by Domenico Starnone

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Ties is a novel full of containers, both literal and symbolic. In spite of them, things go missing.

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Beverly鈥檚 Quotes

“I have always been more appalled by man鈥檚 apathy in the face of horror than by the horror itself.”
― Eduardo Halfon

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“Being privileged doesn't mean that you are always wrong and people without privilege are always right. It means that there is a good chance you are missing a few very important pieces of the puzzle.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

tags: perspective, privilege

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“When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find our opportunities to make real change.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

tags: oppression, privilege, privileges, social-justice, social-justice-power

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“Disadvantaged white people are not erased by discussions of disadvantages facing people of color, just as brain cancer is not erased by talking about breast cancer. They are two different issues with two different treatments, and they require two different conversations.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

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“Or perhaps it is a matter of those despised parts of our natures that are normally frittered away as harmless foibles giving rise in times of war to monsters.”
― Kanan Makiya, The Rope

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