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Learning to pay attention
Excerpt from Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott This is an excerpt from the book Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. Writing is about learning to pay attention and to communicate what is going on. Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the…
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Why didn’t we kill you off
Excerpt from The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King This is an excerpt from the book The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King. If North America doesn’t like Live Indians and it doesn’t like Legal Indians, why doesn’t the military-political-corporate complex just kill us off? I know this question sounds melodramatic and absurd, but I’ve been to…
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Gateway drug
This is a quote from the book The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King. Have you read this book? I’d love to hear your thoughts in a comment below! If you’re interested, you can read an excerpt from the book here. The Inconvenient Indian – Summary The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the…
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Natural sweetness inside
Excerpt from Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor This is an excerpt from the book Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor. I just found out that Flannery O’Connor was quite blatantly racist. I don’t think it’s fair to simply say she’s a product of her times (she was alive and writing at the same time as James…
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Pages to fill
This is a quote from the book Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree. Have you read this book? I’d love to hear your thoughts in a comment below! If you’re interested, you can read an excerpt from the book here. Legends & Lattes- Summary After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up…
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You made this?
Excerpt from Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree This is an excerpt from the book Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree. Thimble rapped on the front door as the two of them prepared to open. In his hands he clutched a cloth-wrapped lump that trailed wisps of steam. Viv smelled something warm and yeasty and…
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A fool like him
Excerpt from Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin This is an excerpt from the book Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin. Beyond Sixth Avenue the movie houses began, and now he studied the stills carefully, trying to decide which of all these theaters he should enter. He stopped at…
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When he had read all the books
This is a quote from the book Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin. Have you read this book? I’d love to hear your thoughts in a comment below! Go Tell It On the Mountain – Summary “Mountain,” Baldwin said, “is the book I had to write if I was ever going to…
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History is the stories we tell
This is a quote from the book The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King. Have you read this book? I’d love to hear your thoughts in a comment below! If you’re interested, you can read an excerpt from the book here. The Inconvenient Indian – Summary The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the…
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Extermination and assimilation
Excerpt from The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King This is an excerpt from the book The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King. Throughout the history of Indian-White relations in North America, there have always been two impulses afoot. Extermination and assimilation. Extermination of Native peoples, especially in the early years, was not considered “genocide”—a term coined…