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...I’ve learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them—business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye. - The Woman Warrior, chapter 2

"Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!" - The Great Gatsby, p. 106



- Jean-Michel Basquiat, Per Capita

Selfishness blights the germ of all virtue; individualism, at first, only saps the virtues of public life; but in the long run it attacks and destroys all others and is at length absorbed in downright selfishness. Selfishness is a vice as old as the world, which does not belong to one form of society more than to another; individualism is of democratic origin, and it threatens to spread in the same ratio as the equality of condition. - Alexis de Tocqueville, of Individualism in Democratic Countries

My job is my own only land. - The Woman Warrior, chapter 2

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? Alexis de Tocqueville

"We stare at her, wanting her bread, but more than that wanting to poke the arrogance out of her eyes and smash the pride of ownership that curls her chewing mouth." - The Bluest Eye, pg. 9



Reflection on the World We Call Home