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“In real life, Oxford and Cambridge are two excellent universities, like many others in the country. They are full of highly intelligent, hard-working, and quite ordinary students and teachers.” quote by Mary Beard — Download Open image

“In real life, Oxford and Cambridge are two excellent universities, like many others in the country. They are full of highly intelligent, hard-working, and quite ordinary students and teachers.”

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I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.

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“thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb (‘to power’), not as a possession.”

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