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It comforts the adult conscience to remember that, amid history's grave injustices, there were still great lives.
Rumaan Alam
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History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The young readers in my house, told of slavery and segregation, asked in disbelief, 'What? Why?' We - the parents of black children, the parents of all children - still need to tell that story.
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The person most qualified to tell the tale of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the man himself, as gifted an intellect as he is an athlete.
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When I was somewhere between child and adult, my father left us. My first family broke apart, but this liberated me to create a new family as I pleased.
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I married the man I love when the state of California said I could. We made a family through adoption, as New York State said we could. From the outside, our family - two dads, two sons via adoption - seems like an experiment, but what family isn't an experiment?
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Family is whatever you say it is.
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Among this country's enduring myths is that success is virtuous, while the wealth by which we measure success is incidental. We tell ourselves that money cannot buy happiness, but what is incontrovertible is that money buys stuff, and if stuff makes you happy, well, complete the syllogism.
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I don't have a Winslow Homer or a Renoir, but I do have the liberty to live as I like.
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I am a binge reader, with a tendency to throw myself at a writer, immerse myself in their work.
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I love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life.
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That's part of fashion's promise: that a girlfriend or boyfriend or a promotion are just one tie or sweater or pair of shoes away.
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Fashion is about fantasy.
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