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"“If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat.
It is an unnecessary insult.”" — Mar 27, 2024 01:37AM
"“If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat.
It is an unnecessary insult.”" — Mar 27, 2024 01:37AM
“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?
People have the right to resist annihilation”
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People have the right to resist annihilation”
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“They owned the means of production, and therefore the means of representation, and the best that we could ever hope for was to get a word in edgewise before our anonymous deaths.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“Women should break out of the snare of silence. They shouldn't be conned into accepting a domain which is the margin or the harem.”
― The Laugh of the Medusa
― The Laugh of the Medusa
“In this lukewarm world, ambient discontent hides in plain view, a hazy malaise given off by the refrigerators, television sets and other consumer durables. The vividness and plausibility of this miserable world — with misery itself contributing to the world’s plausibility — somehow becomes all the more intense when its status is downgraded to that of a constructed simulation. The world is a simulation but it still feels real.”
― The Weird and the Eerie
― The Weird and the Eerie
“Let the priests tremble, we're going to show them our sexts!”
― The Laugh of the Medusa
― The Laugh of the Medusa
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