Category: Book Review: Non-Fiction
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The Road to Wigan Pier
“It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are.”
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The Woman in Me
“There have been so many times when I was scared to speak up because I was afraid somebody would think I was crazy.”
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Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods
“I’ve spent my entire life treading around white people’s feelings. My job is to write the truth.”
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Humble Pie
“When I think about myself, I still see a little boy who is desperate to escape, and keen to please.”
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My Year of Not Getting Sh*tfaced
“I think meditation and saying ‘no’ more often is going to help me, along with feeling it’s okay for people not to agree with me or like me.”
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This Ragged Grace
“I like this idea that as we evolve, somewhere deep within us remains a skeletal trace of what came before that builds up in layers, a sediment of the self.”
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How To Be Right: In A World Gone Wrong
“Despite the title of this book, it is refreshing, in an age of increasingly reductionist and binary debate, to recognise the importance of sometimes saying the three most undervalued words in the English language: I don’t know.”
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