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"“[gentrifiers] were complicated locusts, they ate up everything in sight, but they meant well […] drawn by the promise of empty land and easy business, the opportunity available among the ruins of other peoples’ lives”. adrienne maree brown’s prose is as vibrant as her worldbuilding — Octavia Butler is alive in these sci-fi tales !" — Aug 08, 2025 02:22PM
"“[gentrifiers] were complicated locusts, they ate up everything in sight, but they meant well […] drawn by the promise of empty land and easy business, the opportunity available among the ruins of other peoples’ lives”. adrienne maree brown’s prose is as vibrant as her worldbuilding — Octavia Butler is alive in these sci-fi tales !" — Aug 08, 2025 02:22PM
“I believe I’m going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I’m going to die high off the people. I believe I’m going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.”
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“If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“There is no understanding Englishness without understanding its imperial and colonial dimensions.”
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“Black people need some peace, white people need some peace, and we're gonna have to fight, we're gonna have to struggle, we're gonna have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we're asking for peace, they're a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don't even understand what peace means.”
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“I see the ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people, ’cause the rich people gonna be so fat, they gonna be so appetizing, you know what I’m saying, wealthy, appetizing. The poor gonna be so poor and hungry, you know what I’m saying? It’s gonna be like — there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.”
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