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What It Takes to Grow Up, What It Means to Have Grown

Category
Literature
Creator
Ranking
Top 20
Type
Date
February 17, 2020
Resource Link
https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/02/17/ross-gay-book-of-delights-grown/
Resource Series
Brain Pickings
What It Takes to Grow Up, What It Means to Have Grown

"True adulthood," Toni Morrison told an orchard of human saplings in her 2004 Wellesley College commencement address, "is a difficult beauty, an intensely hard won glory, which commercial forces and cultural vapidity should not be permitted to deprive you of."

What It Takes to Grow Up, What It Means to Have Grown