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The Men QUOTES

The Men QUOTES

1 " Not everyone is meant to change the world. We let the world change around us. We let it die if it will. We live small lives, constrained by habit and fear. "

― Sandra Newman , The Men

2 " Doors and windows opened along the street, and women poured out, appearing on apartment balconies and porches and spilling onto the sidewalk singing. It was now revealed that this was a Hispanic neighborhood. For a moment, Ruth thought she was the only white person and felt a shameful jolt of racial paranoia. "

― Sandra Newman , The Men

3 " Here she told the story of our first meeting: how I’d run away from her in the street, and she’d felt like she was going crazy. She’d given chase and run me down as if she could finally corner whiteness, confront it and make it face its lies. When I agreed to withdraw from the class, she assumed it was just my way of escaping the class of scary Black girls. For that minute, she was in the dystopian world of the old Nation of Islam, where whites were perversities, the botched results of a malign experiment, eternal antagonists to real human beings. "

― Sandra Newman , The Men