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In the absence of any larger vision or mandate, city engineers—worshiping the twin gods of Smooth Traffic and Ample Parkinghave turned our downtowns into places that are easy to get to but not worth arriving at.
Evil may result as well from good as from ill intentions. That is the fallibility and tragedy of human history—or, to use a different vocabulary, its dialectic. Nothing handed down from the past could keep race alive if we did not constantly reinvent and re-ritualize it to fit our own terrain.
Racecraft
Barbara J. Fields, Karen Fields
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
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