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Drink from the fountain of love where every drop is eternal passion.
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Mahogany SilverRain (Ebony Encounters: A Trilogy of Erotic Tales)
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There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.
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L.V. Lewis (Fifty Shades of Jungle Fever)
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Be nice to his family. Pretend not to notice the way their house smells. Pretend to like their food. Mimic their barbaric customs at the dinner table.
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Laura Yes Yes (How to Seduce a White Boy in Ten Easy Steps)
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Having something forbidden is exciting, don't you agree?
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Allan Dare Pearce (Paris in April)
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Life has so many tuneless days... what better posture to take than to become a whimsical motherfucker?
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Kathleen Collins (Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?)
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Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.
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Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
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The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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He utterly honored his sorrow, gave in to it with such deep and boundless weeping that it seemed as I stood there he was the bravest man I had ever known.
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Kathleen Collins (Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?)
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Everyone needs beauty. Even beautiful people"
From "Central Park Song
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Zack Love (Stories and Scripts: an Anthology)
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It's not how long you see something. It's how you intensely you feel it"
From Central Park Song: a Screenplay
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Zack Love (Stories and Scripts: an Anthology)
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Don't think about that. Just believe I'll be okay.
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Shane Morgan (Impossibly Love (Impossibly, #1))
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I love it when a woman can emotionally bring her man to his knees, and when he, in turn, pushes her to and over the edge when they make love. Give me Romance, Sex, Love and HEAs. Always.
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B. Buena
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Eva burst out laughing, remembering the complete wardrobe makeover she'd had to perform on Alexei after she opened his closet and found some of the busiest open-collared, polyester dress shirts known to man.
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Theodora Taylor (Her Russian Billionaire: 50 Loving States, Texas)
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Prince Harry marrying Meghan Markle says more about him than any historian could ever write.
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Germany Kent
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Our minds are intricate. Our desires are complex. We are gorgeously contradictory in our epistemologies. We were not invented yesterday. Kathleen
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Kathleen Collins (Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?)
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Funny thing about love, ain’t it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn’t enough.
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Eden Butler (Infinite Us)
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People look at interracial couples through their own, distorting racial lens. It doesn't matter what form they take.
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Mat Johnson (Loving Day)
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Black is bountiful. White is witful. Together they are beautiful.
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Indeewara Jayawardane
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...later she would laugh when she discovered that meaninglessness came from the dark shaft of gloom that surrounded her day and night, and that ecstasy was just a sunny room away.
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Kathleen Collins (Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?)
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He controlled her with each thrust, damn near stamping his name on her privates-in all caps, bolded, so she'd never forget who it belonged to.
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Delaney Diamond (The Blind Date (Love Unexpected #1))
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Sometimes you have to endure what you hate in order to accomplish what you love.
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Lesa Ellanson
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Love never asks you to erase your past,
Love never attempts to erase your identity.
Love accepts your past and expands your present,
Love embraces you as you, and empowers your identity.
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Abhijit Naskar (Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım)
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And I know, I’m sitting here next to my white best friend but it’s almost as if I giving Khalil, Daddy, Seven, and every other black guy in my life a big, loud “fuck you” by having a white boyfriend.
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Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1))
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Brielle suddenly felt her libido skittering across an ice-covered pond, heading for impact. And on the other side of that pond was Matthew Montgomery, the immovable object, preparing to break her fall.
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B. Buena (Love Elusive)
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Because, you know, a colored woman with class is still an exceptional creature; and a colored woman with class, style, poetry, taste, elegance, repartee, and haute cuisine is an almost nonexistent species.
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Kathleen Collins (Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?)
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MASSIMO: "After all I have done, to have you love me is nothing less than a miracle."
BELINDA: He was wrong. Loving him was the easiest thing in the world. That they’d found each other after their respective histories was the miracle.
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Billy London (A Life Sublime)
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Damn, she better get her imagination under control or she was going to be in trouble. She stole another glance in his direction, her eyes locked onto the bulge in his lap. Well lookie there. Maybe I’m not the only one having carnal thoughts
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Tamara Hoffa (A Special Kind of Love)
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I cannot choose for you,” he said, “for choosing a bride is like making a bowl of akamu. If someone makes it poorly, you will blame him for the rest of your life; but if you make
it yourself, you will drink it without complaining, whatever the outcome.
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Sinachi Ukpabi (The Heritage: A Story of Interracial Love, Civil War and Culture)
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We needed to be autodidacts; we needed to pass books from hand to hand; we needed to search, and thus be inspired by hard-won effort to create ourselves. We needed to understand that there is power in searching and finding and not having things handed to us.
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Kathleen Collins (Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?)
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Her father was an intimidating man who held fast to his belief in his African heritage; that black should not marry white to avoid racial confusion. She was in love with a white man whose mother wished to keep her family's heritage intact by not crossbreeding with another race.
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Katherine Vogel (In The Midst of Secrets ( Interracial Romance BWWM))
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Is it really true that the only good thing a Blackman can offer in a relationship with a white woman is thunderous sex?
Of course, sex plays a vital healing role in every loving relationship. That is a fact of life. But, as we discover in the story of Glasgow Kiss, sex is not always the only thing that occupies a Blackman’s mind. On the contrary, when a man is as passionate, dedicated, committed and determined as Mamadu is to fight and hold onto his true love, irrespective of the numerous challenges he faces, he is able show that it is far more important to pay attention to his heartbeat than the growing erection in his trousers!
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Frank McChebe (Glasgow Kiss)
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DURANTE: They are eighteen year olds in half centenarians’ bodies.
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Billy London
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I love how Scarlett Avery has a way of making the stories come to life. —P brad
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Scarlett Avery (Devilish Temptation (British Rendezvous #3))
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It was only sunlight she needed. Pure, delicious sunlight flooding through a room.)
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Kathleen Collins (Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?)
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Body language translation: hell yes, dipshit
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Shay Rucker (On the Edge of Love (Mama's Brood, #1))
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India is going to face the biggest genital crisis, the only reason for which is not to have interracial marriages. At that time you will remember this sentence very much.
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Pradip Bendkule
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reality, the Mann Act was used to prevent interracial relationships. World champion heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson was prosecuted under the Mann Act for dating white women.
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Jamie Ford (Love and Other Consolation Prizes)
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Like love, like gravity, sex can warp the fabric of time and space.
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K.D. West (The Visitor Rises: A Friendly Reverse Harem+ Tale (Interracial MMMFF) (The Visitor's Apprentice Book 3))
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Intuitively, she sensed Leonardo’s gaze on her, and she caught sight of him near the entrance to the balcony. He was watching her, though he should have been engrossed in the conversation with the two other people with whom he was standing, one of which was the redhead. Even from that distance across the room, she could sense his desire for her, and there was an answering pounding of the blood in her veins as their gazes locked.
Maybe it was the kiss between Russell and Joan and the romantic notion of long-lasting love, but Alexa found her thoughts straying to memories of sharing passionate kisses with Leonardo. She carefully placed her glass of wine on the table before it slipped from her damp fingers and crashed onto the expensive white carpet. She felt nervous and jittery because she knew the reason for Leonardo’s smoldering scrutiny. She was fully aware of what was expected of her, and she found herself breathlessly anticipating the end of the evening.
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Delaney Diamond (The Arrangement (Latin Men #1))
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...there is no easy way to articulate what it means for your loved ones to worry that your person's ability to love you is limited by their inability to comprehend many of your lived experiences.
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Onyi Nwabineli (Someday, Maybe)
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Ms. Scarlett always delivers hot, sexy alphas and this isn't any different. Holy smokes, is this ever HOT! Love her writing and the way she spins a story but adds the HOT factor. Her alphas are phenomenal! - JC
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Scarlett Avery (Delightful Temptation (British Rendezvous, #1))
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Oh my God, you thought, how life will take them apart, untangle them when they should be allowed to stay as they are, stay so deeply entwined, full of faith only in each other--oh, they should stay like that forever.
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Kathleen Collins (Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?)
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Swap out one of these men with the mute, and I’ll be right as rain,” Randy said from his spot near the kitchen entrance.
“Thought we were besties,” Bride mumbled into the shot of rum she’d pilfered from Randy’s cabinet.
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Shay Rucker (On the Edge of Love (Mama's Brood, #1))
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If you are white, you have an obligation to at least understand where the concept of whiteness comes from and to decide how you will proceed with that knowledge. I hope your journey will include an intentional choice to acquire dexterity.
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Sheryll Cashin (Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy)
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As Amani frantically diced the ingredients for her Pan seared Mahi-Mahi with Mango Salsa, she recalled her first meeting with him during a class he taught on the presentation of food and organization the previous year. Amani had been immediately drawn to the tall, serious Californian, and not just because of his looks. With dark wavy hair, strong features and the deepest blue eyes she had ever seen short of Paul Newman’s, David Spencer was everything Amani admired in a man, and then some.
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Joanna Hynes (love and my iron chef)
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Just as twenty-first century masters of the universe exploit workers, lobby for tax loopholes, and devise or reap profits from predatory business practices, [Thomas] Jefferson and his peers found it very hard to give up the unearned advantages of systems of exploitation.
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Sheryll Cashin (Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy)
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...I don’t know why you’re sulking, I wasn’t going to give up my holiday to sit and nurse you from a break-up with a guy I told you not to deal with…He was your Gynaecologist for crying out loud. You don’t mix business with pleasure, and not with a man who knows more about your insides than you.
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S.L. Gibson (Love Changes Everything (Mercinia, #1))
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He rode home with her to New Jersey and she took him into the backyard to look at her father’s roses . . . to look at her childhood, to look at what pricked and stung and was difficult to forgive. He looked at the house and the yard and her family . . . And it seemed to her that everything changed. Was forgiven. The
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Kathleen Collins (Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?)
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With a single glance from those mesmerizing eyes, my body starts to respond. He extends his hand and I reach out as if his touch is the only thing I need to survive. When he leads me to his bed and lowers me onto the soft sheets that match the blue green of his eyes, I realize that I am lost.
Is this love, desire, lust, need?
Yes, to all of the above.
-B Buena
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B. Buena
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I love… I love black women.” My first reaction was to laugh and then smile. “You see I love that when you smile. I love your lips and your cheekbones. I love the fullness and that everlasting youth. I love the colour and how it comes in so many shades but none grey. The spectrum of heavenly chocolate to golden honey is irresistible. I love the variety of your beauty.
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Ella December
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Look at you Infidelity”, shaking his head in frustration. “I’m not sure if your choice of drug is passion, the thrill of the affair or the man himself, but there is a void you are trying to have us fulfill in your life and you are hooked! The secrets, the lies, the lame attempts to quit sleeping around…the isolation; don’t you get it? YOU LOVE INFIDELITY!"
- Loving Infidelity
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Taylor Marie (Loving Infidelity)
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I don't know how you survived! I've been all over this bloody country and I swear to God, I don't know how you survived! This place is a million godforsaken times worse than South Africa! Christ, man, apartheid puts holes in our dignity but it leaves us our culture, man! We've still got our lifeline, our traditions... Christ Almighty, man, they didn't leave you a bloody thing! Not a bloody thing!
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Kathleen Collins (Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?)
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Some people refer to a ‘just war’ or a ‘war of necessity’ and
others posit that it is simply an illusion to dignify war, no matter
the circumstance. Having said that, the necessity or otherwise of
war can be seen in the Igbo of Nigeria concept of ‘akwa aja ahụ
ọgụ’. A man is thus bound to defend his ‘ama’ or territory and
his manhood against any intruder, oppressor or aggressor or be
regarded as a ‘woman’ by his people.
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Sinachi Ukpabi (The Heritage: A Story of Interracial Love, Civil War and Culture)
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It wasn’t until 1967 that the United States Supreme Court finally struck down anti-miscegenation statutes in Loving v. Virginia, but restrictions on interracial marriage persisted even after that landmark ruling. Alabama’s state constitution still prohibited the practice in 1986 when Walter met Karen Kelly. Section 102 of the state constitution read: The legislature shall never pass any law to authorise or legalise any marriage between any white person and a Negro or descendant of a Negro.* No
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Bryan Stevenson (Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption)
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We don't like to admit that the ideology of white supremacy, constructed and reified for centuries, is still with us in the expectations that many whites have. Ina social world in which whiteness is central, where white people have the luxury of thinking of themselves as individuals and never in racial terms, seeing or talking about race is unnecessary and often forbidden, except for intra-tribal talk about the problems of others. In this sense, people who profess themselves to be color-blind are disingenuous or deluding themselves
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Sheryll Cashin (Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy)
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Where did the idea that interracial relationships are incompatible with the fight for equality come from? My white husband doesn’t make me any less black, or any less dedicated to the fight for racial justice—just as being married to a man doesn’t make me any less of a feminist or passionate about women’s issues. Perhaps some forget that interracial marriage was at one time, not so long ago, a civil rights issue; it was illegal in many states until 1967, when the landmark Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia determined that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional
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Franchesca Ramsey (Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist)
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We walked home in the cold afternoon past Franklin Simon's windows, where the children of all nations revolved steadily in the light. Most of the stores were concentrating on the gift aspect of the Nativity, displaying frankincense, myrrh, and bath salts, but Franklin Simon advertised the Child Himself, along with a processional of other children of assorted races, lovely to behold. We stood and watched passers-by take in this international and interracial scene, done in terms of childhood, and we observed the gleam in the eyes of colored people as they spotted the little colored child in with the others.
There hasn't been a Christmas like this one since the first Christmas--the fear, the suffering, the awe, the strange new light that nobody understands yet. All the traditional characteristics of Christmas are this year in reverse: instead of the warm grate and the happy child, in most parts of the world the cold room and the starveling. The soldiers of the triumphant armies return to their homes to find a hearty welcome but an unfamiliar air of uneasiness, uncertainty, and constraint. They find, too, that people are groping toward something which still has no name but which keeps turning up--in department-store windows and in every other sort of wistful human display. It is the theme concealed in the victory which the armies of the democracies won in the field, the yet unclaimed triumph: justice among men of all races, a world in which children (of whatever country) are warm and unafraid.
It seems too bad that men are preparing to blow the earth to pieces just as they have got their hands on a really first-rate idea. Our Christmas greetings this year are directed to the men and women who will represent the people of the world at the meeting of the United Nations Organization in January. We send them best wishes and a remembrance of that first Christmas. Our hope is that they will shed the old robes which have adorned dignitaries for centuries and put on the new cloth that fits one man as well as another, no matter where he lives on this worried and all too shatterable earth.
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E.B. White (The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters)
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In Mississippi, where I lived from 1967 to 1974, people who challenged the system anticipated menace, battery, even murder, every day. In this context, I sometimes felt ashamed that my contributions at the time were not more radical. I taught in two local black colleges, I wrote about the Movement, and I created tiny history booklets which were used to teach the teachers of children enrolled in Head Start. And, of course, I was interracially married, which was illegal. It was perhaps in Mississippi during those years that I understood how the daily news of disaster can become, for the spirit, a numbing assault, and that one's own activism, however modest, fighting against this tide of death, provides at least the possibility of generating a different kind of "news." A "news" that empowers rather that defeats.
There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the mountaintop. Gandhi dying with the name of God on his lips. Sojourner Truth baring her breasts at a women's rights convention in 1851. Harriet Tubman exposing her revolver to some of the slaves she had freed, who, fearing an unknown freedom, looks longingly backward to their captivity, thereby endangering the freedom of all. To be such a person or to witness anyone at this moment of transcendent presence is to know that what is human is linked, by a daring compassion, to what is divine. During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebrations. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough *to be that* - which is the foundation of activism.
It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame.
This is the tragedy of our world.
For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.
In this regard, I have a story to tell.
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Alice Walker (Anything We Love Can Be Saved)
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The word spinster, mixed with stifled laughter from the living room, picked her ear like a needle. Will I ever escape the culture of my faraway country? she wondered.
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Zoë S. Roy (Spinster Kang)
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A wide-brimmed spinster’s hat had been thrown up in the sky. It was gradually falling into the deep ocean.
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Zoë S. Roy (Spinster Kang)