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"Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start."
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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
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"Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong."
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"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."
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"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."
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"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."
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"I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child."
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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
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"Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing."
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"Read in order to live."
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"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."
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"The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory."
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"I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students."
People
"But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child."
Time
"Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start."
Reading
"Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available."
People
"I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education."
Education
"What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later."
People
"Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools."
Behavior
"You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible."
Poor
"If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream."
Society
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