Sarah Churchwell quotes

Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression. (Sarah Churchwell)
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion. View quote
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If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary. View quote
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Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking. View quote
Sarah Churchwell
Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more. View quote
Sarah Churchwell
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them. View quote
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History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things. View quote
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Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld. View quote
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There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it. View quote
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