We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, … - Paule Marshall

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It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to be observed in the conducting of experiments, which cannot well be described in words, but which it is needless to describe, since practice will necessarily suggest them; though, like all other arts in which the hands and fingers are made use of, it is only much practice that can enable a person to go through complex experiments, of this or any kind, with ease and readiness.

Paule Marshall

We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.

Good, Light, Run, Running, White Privilege, Whiteness

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Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

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