The Quarantine Tapes

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The Quarantine Tapes 092: James McBride Aug 05, 2020

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“Personally, I’m only interested in solutions. I’m not interested in the symbols that much. I’m interested in solutions that allow us who are on this planet to live a better life.”

The Quarantine Tapes 091: Robin Kelley Aug 04, 2020

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“Some of the best ideas are those that are produced in struggle, in movement. The only way you’re going to be in a movement is because you love life, because you love the people you’re fighting for and with. Sometimes that love--the Agape love, the strong love--is one that does not at all depend on reciprocity.”

The Quarantine Tapes 090: Susan Orlean Aug 03, 2020

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“Books are immortal and they allow you to have this thing that none of us can actually have, which is an immortality and indelibility that books do have. That’s why I think, ultimately, it’s a very optimistic gesture to write a book or to record a story or to commit to paper a memory or observation. I think there’s this optimism that this will last and people will be able to experience this.”

The Quarantine Tapes 089: Anthony Romero Jul 30, 2020

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“I thought it was very important for the ACLU to be in strong solidarity with the leadership of Black Lives Matter and other organizations, and we will take our cues from them.”

The Quarantine Tapes 088: Krista Tippett Jul 29, 2020

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“I feel that George Floyd’s killing, and all of the events that have followed, remind us that there is this terrible violence and distortion around which we have wrapped our lives and our society, and that we cannot transform or remake the world without going through this reckoning of our racial reality.”

The Quarantine Tapes 087: Ibram X. Kendi Jul 28, 2020

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“I hope [this moment] is a portal to policy change. I hope that we’re really at the beginning of radically transforming this country, that Americans are indeed serious about building equity and justice. That’s what I’m hoping. And I think in order for that to happen, we have to ensure that we’re transforming policy and we’re even transforming power.”

The Quarantine Tapes 086: Peter Kimani Jul 27, 2020

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“I think what this pandemic has done is to expose years, sometimes decades, of social inequities.”

The Quarantine Tapes 085: David Ulin Jul 24, 2020

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“Life goes on. The pandemic is not a pause, it’s a crucible. We move through it as we move through anything. Our lives go on. We’re continuing to engage, we’re continuing to have to deal with whatever we’re dealing with in our personal relationships. We’re not putting our lives on hold for six months, or one year, or two years, but figuring out how to navigate our lives in this period, with this set of conditions.”

The Quarantine Tapes 084: Walter Mosley Jul 23, 2020

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“In America, there’s a really powerful attempt by the people who control wealth, who also control the media, to distract us from what’s best for us, to distract us from democracy, to distract us from where we sit inside the culture.”

The Quarantine Tapes 083: Isabella Rossellini Jul 22, 2020

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“Whenever I say, ‘I want to be a director’ or ‘I want to write’, all these people say, ‘Oh, why don’t you write about your husband or your boyfriend’ or something. It doesn’t interest me. That’s not my muse. I want to write about animals. I feel like I am an environmental artist, my muse is the environment, it’s nature, it’s mostly animals.”

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