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Additional "MIRROR" & "WINDOW" suggestions
to experience this summer!
Additional "MIRROR" & "WINDOW" suggestions
to experience this summer!
“Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created and recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books. (1990, p. ix)” - Rudine Sims Bishop
“Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created and recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books. (1990, p. ix)” - Rudine Sims Bishop
“Humans don’t make our stories, it’s stories that make us human (paraphrasing Amiri Baraka).
It’s not until we know the stories of each other that we embrace our humanity.
When I know the stories of my people and my culture, that’s when I become human myself.”
-Ezra Hyland
“Humans don’t make our stories, it’s stories that make us human (paraphrasing Amiri Baraka).
It’s not until we know the stories of each other that we embrace our humanity.
When I know the stories of my people and my culture, that’s when I become human myself.”
-Ezra Hyland
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