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“You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.”
― Octavia E. Butler

“How else, except through being alone for a while, could you ever discover who you really are? But”
― Tananarive Due, My Soul to Keep

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
― Ben Okri

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road