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161 " He has a reptile dysfunction. "
― Jodi Picoult , Small Great Things
162 " I have fought, I have cried, and now, I am not sure what else to do. "
163 " Drinking alone,” Micah says, when he comes home from the hospital and finds me in the dark, in the kitchen, with a bottle of Syrah. “That’s the first sign, you know.” I lift up my glass, and take a long swallow. “Of what?” “Adulthood, probably, "
164 " wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurture. When "
165 " Adisa says the word assimilation with so much venom that you’d think anyone who chooses it—like I did—is swallowing poison. It "
166 " That’s the problem with having a calling,” Kennedy says. “It doesn’t just pay the rent.” A "
167 " I think about Ruth walking down the street on East End and wonder how many other residents questioned what she was doing there, even if they never said it to her face. How incredibly easy it is to hide behind white skin, I think, looking at these probable supremacists. The benefit of the doubt is in your favor. You're not suspicious. "
168 " Just as racism creates disadvantages for people of color that make success harder to achieve, it also gives advantages to white people that make success easier to achieve. "
169 " drifted toward rates of retinal nerve fiber layer loss in contralateral eyes of glaucoma "
170 " No,” she says. “He has a reptile dysfunction. "
171 " Brit and I were able to build something real and solid out of a material as blurry and intangible as love. "