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  1. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.
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  2. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ Between the World and Me

    It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would like to think about ourselves, our lives, the world we move through and the people who surround us. The struggle to understand is our only advantage over this madness.
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  3. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ Between the World and Me

    You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow the citizens of this country to pretend that there is real distance between their own attitudes and those of the ones appointed to protect them. The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of this country's criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was imposed by a repressive minority. The abuses that have followed from these policies-the sprawling carceral state, the random detention of black people, the torture of suspects-are the product of democratic will. And so to challenge the police is to challenge the American people who send them into the ghettos armed with the same self-generated fears that compelled the people who think they are white to flee the cities and into the Dream. The problem with the police is not that they are fascist pigs but that our country is ruled by majoritarian pigs."
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  4. Adam Rex _ The True Meaning of Smekday

    Captain Smek himself appeared on television for an official speech to humankind. {...} 'Noble Savages of Earth,' he said. 'Long time we have tried to live together in peace.' {It had been five months.} 'Long time have the Boov suffered under the hostileness and intolerableness of you people. With sad hearts I now concede that Boov and humans will never to exist as one.' I remember being really excited at this point. Could I possibly be hearing right? Were the Boov about to leave? I was so stupid.'And so now I generously grant you Human Preserves - gifts of land that will be for humans forever, never to be taken away again, now.' {...} So that's when we Americans were given Florida. One state for three hundred million people. There were going to be some serious lines for the bathrooms.
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  5. Paul D. Escott _ Uncommonly Savage: Civil War

    One South Carolinian who grew up early in the twentieth century "did not learn that the South had lost the war until he was twelve years old. 'It was one of the saddest awakenings I ever had,'" he recalled. Similarly, Margaret Mitchell remembered that she "heard so much about the fighting and hard times after the war that I firmly believed Mother and Father had been through it all instead of being born long afterward." {141-42}
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  6. James Baldwin _ Dark Days

    A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State. The slaughter in Birmingham, Alabama, for example, was not merely the action of a mob.
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  7. James Baldwin _ Notes of a Native Son

    It is considered a rather cheerful axiom that all Americans distrust politicians. {No one takes the further and less cheerful step of considering just what effect this mutual contempt has on either the public or the politicians, who have, indeed, very little to do with one another.}
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  8. James Baldwin _ Dark Days

    No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide.
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  9. James Baldwin _ The Fire Next Time

    And if the word means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become.
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  10. John Fowles _ Daniel Martin

    {об американцах} - Я понимаю, они - туристы, не отличающиеся очень уж развитым воображением. Вспоминаю, как училась там в школе. Ребята там казались мне гораздо более открытыми, по крайней мере в том, что касалось личных пристрастий. Всегда рассказывали, что чувствуют. - Да дело вовсе не в том, что они об этом не рассказывают. - А в том, что недостаточно чувствуют? - Да и не в этом тоже. Недостаточно знают. Не позволяют себе много знать. Как с этим Грамши, о котором ты говорила. - Он помолчал и добавил: - Всё всегда делают по правилам. Джейн помолчала немного. - Питер писал о чём-то вроде этого в одном из писем. Как вначале тебе нравится их прямота… а потом начинаешь тосковать по извивам. - Я испытал то же самое. Прозрачность - прекрасная вещь. Пока не начинаешь понимать, что она основана не столько на внутренней честности, сколько на отсутствии воображения. И эта их так называемая откровенность по поводу секса. Они просто не понимают, что утратили.
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  11. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad

    The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.
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  12. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad

    If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now.Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor--if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative.
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