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jenk ([personal profile] jenk) wrote2006-09-04 09:14 pm

quotes that jumped out at me

I told him I’d been raised a Pentecostal but mellowed into Methodism as an adult.
Who me?
James Baldwin said being black in America is like walking around with a pebble in your shoe. Sometimes it scarcely registers and sometimes it shifts and becomes uncomfortable and sometimes it can even serve as a kind of Buddhist mindfulness bell, keeping you present, making you pay attention.
It sounds like a good metaphor to me.

Quotes from Kim McLarin, writing for The New York Times.