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“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans are indigenous. So, in a strange way, I’m pleased that the racist folks of Arizona have officially declared, in banning me alongside Urrea, Baca, and Castillo, that their anti-immigration laws are also anti-Indian. I’m also strangely pleased that the folks of Arizona have officially announced their fear of an educated underclass. You give those brown kids some books about brown folks and what happens? Those brown kids change the world. In the effort to vanish our books, Arizona has actually given them enormous power. Arizona has made our books sacred documents now.”
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Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and filmmaker. His book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s Fist Fight in Heaven,” was on the banned curriculum of the Mexican American Studies Program.
http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie
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This ban of the Mexican American Studies program at Tucson high schools is terrible. It would be ridiculous, if it were funny. The list of banned books includes works by authors like Sherman Alexie, Junot Diaz, Leslie Silko - and Shakespeare. “Administrators told Mexican-American studies teachers to stay away from any class units where ‘race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes’” What’s left, then?
Besides this being incredibly racist, it also makes me sick every time a democracy bans books. (The only obvious exception might be Nazi-glorifying work.)
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“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via teachingliteracy)
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“It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.”
— Miranda July, Something That Needs Nothing (via knockturn)
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“She’s not as much of a reader as I am, but I don’t hold it against her. After all, reading is just one way to get your kicks, to live a full life, to suck the marrow of human experience.”
— patrick pineyro, the last book i loved: ulysses, @ the rumpus. gosh it’s nice seeing someone who loves books saying this. (via isabelthespy)
“And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via katiekashmir)
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