Interesting article by Ta-Nehisi Coates for Vanity Fair. “Words are not violence, nor are they powerless.” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/charlie-kirk-ezra-klein-tanehisi-coates?s=...
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Interesting article by Ta-Nehisi Coates for Vanity Fair. “Words are not violence, nor are they powerless.” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/charlie-kirk-ezra-klein-tanehisi-coates?s=...
pickDefinitely falls in the category of 'the kind of writing I'm hoping is being read and discussed in classrooms'.
The book is divided into four essays, with a heavy focus on the purpose of writing. 1/?
Save the books that discomfit, save the teachers that defend them, save the future.
“...add virtue to [ ] violence.“
An eloquent takedown of an ugly business.
Imagination is a gateway to policy change, writing is an inspiration for that imagination.
“It is not enough for me to convince the reader of my argument; I want them to feel that same private joy that I feel alone.“
Today's 'scratched my brain just right' sentence.
“The danger we present, as writers, is not that we will simply convince their children of a different dogma but that we will convince them that they have the power to form their own.“
The need (which so many are privileged to never have to think of) to know you are in a safe enough space to challenge and be challenged by literature, in being taught.
The last bit of this article was correct 🎯.
“The import of this history has never been clearer than in this moment when the hard question must be asked: If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?“ 23h