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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
– Joyce Carol Oates

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  23. It takes a little slip to slip. Inappropriate words are inappropriate! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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  39. Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded. – Karl Marx
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