Mark Juergensmeyer Quotes

When I Came Back I Joined A Black Church In Oakland And That Made Me Feel More At Home, A Bit Like Being Connected To India. It Felt Funny To Be Around So Many White People When I Came Back To The United States. It Still Bothers Me. One Of The Things I Liked Living In Hawaii Years Later Was The Racial Complexity Of It. I Remember That At The Time When Sucheng And I Got Married--we Met As Graduate Students At Berkeley And Have Been Married Almost Forty Years--one Of The First Houses We Bought Was In A Black Neighborhood In West Berkeley And We Didn't Quite Notice How Uniformly Black It Was Until Some Weeks Later. I Said To Sucheng, "You Know, We're The Only White People In This Neighborhood." And She Looked At Me And Said: "Speak For Yourself, Honkie!

Mark Juergensmeyer Quotes: When I Came Back I Joined A Black Church In Oakland And That Made Me Feel More At Home, A

Mark Juergensmeyer Quotes: When I Came Back I Joined A Black Church In Oakland And That Made Me Feel More At Home, A

Mark Juergensmeyer Quotes: When I Came Back I Joined A Black Church In Oakland And That Made Me Feel More At Home, A

Mark Juergensmeyer Quotes: When I Came Back I Joined A Black Church In Oakland And That Made Me Feel More At Home, A

Mark Juergensmeyer Quotes: When I Came Back I Joined A Black Church In Oakland And That Made Me Feel More At Home, A

Mark Juergensmeyer Quotes: When I Came Back I Joined A Black Church In Oakland And That Made Me Feel More At Home, A

Mark Juergensmeyer Quotes: When I Came Back I Joined A Black Church In Oakland And That Made Me Feel More At Home, A

Mark Juergensmeyer Quotes: When I Came Back I Joined A Black Church In Oakland And That Made Me Feel More At Home, A

Mark Juergensmeyer Quotes: When I Came Back I Joined A Black Church In Oakland And That Made Me Feel More At Home, A

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