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“Sanity begins with knowing your place.”

Book:The Sport of Kings

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The Sport of Kings

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C.E. Morgan

C.E. Morgan is an American author recognized for her exploration of themes such as identity, race, and social justice in her works. Born in 1976, she has gained acclaim for her distinctive storytelling and thought-provoking narratives. more

“I love you honey / was the dribbled caramel / of Hollywood movies / Dallas / Dynasty / where electricity surged through skyscrapers / twenty-four hours a day / hot water gushed / at the touch of gleaming taps / banquets obscene as the Pentagon / were mere backdrops / to emotion without consequences / words that / cost nothing / meant nothing.”

Love Family Class

Book:Migritude

Source: Migritude

“Westerners drop / I love you’s / into conversation / like blueberries / hitting soft muffin dough / I convert it to shillings / wince.”

Love Family Class

Book:Migritude

Source: Migritude

“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore!”

Poetry

Book:Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems

Source: Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems

“The estate stayed with me long after I moved elsewhere, partly in the form of a strange kind of vertigo when presented with opportunities and experiences I’d grown up assuming were far beyond my reach. I also felt its presence as early as my first term at university, when I got it into my head that everyone in the student union bar wanted to hear a version of my life story which crossed the “books on prescription” section of the library with Monty Python’s Four Yorkshiremen sketch.”

Class Respectable

Book:Respectable: The Experience of Class

Source: Respectable: The Experience of Class

“There is no hint too broad for a woman of little tact.”

Class Tact Decorum Etiquette Quotes

Book:The Darcys: New Pleasures

Source: The Darcys: New Pleasures

“Hence he did not confuse manners with morals.”

Class Manners Morals

Book:The Darcys: New Pleasures

Source: The Darcys: New Pleasures

“Furthermore, those seeking government privileges, or lucrative posts in the bureaucracy, perform an economic role entirely different from that of people genuinely engaged in trade; those so engaged oppose interference with their trade. It is highly misleading to lump the two together into the term “merchants.”

Class Merchants Cronyism Class Interest

Book:Conceived in Liberty Volumes I-IV

Source: Conceived in Liberty Volumes I-IV

“I don't want to be included. Instead, I want to question who created the standard in the first place. After a lifetime of embodying difference, I have no desire to be equal. I want to deconstruct the structural power of a system that marked me out as different. I don't wish to be assimilated into the status quo. I want to be liberated from all the negative assumptions that my characteristics bring. The same onus is not on me to change. Instead it's the world around me..”

Race Class Feminism Equality Gender Equity Intersectionality White Feminism Intersectional Feminism

Book:Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Source: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“The moral of that story, I think, is that being poor will kill you.”

Poor Class Social Commentary Carmen Maria Machado Her Body And Other Parties The Husband Stitch

Book:Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Source: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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