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Karena Bakas
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Sebald showed me that we live in all times and places at once. His central preoccupation was a kind of physics, an attempt to define and describe what he called “the laws governing the return of the past.” The past is all in there, all the
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“You want to know what weakness is? Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“Don't matter if you was or wasn't. All they gotta so is say you was. That's all they gotta do. You think cuz you all big and muscled up, you safe? Naw, dem white folks can't stand the sight of you. Walkin' round free as can be. Don't nobody want to see a black man look like you walkin' proud as a peacock. Like you ain't got a lick of fear in you”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“You’ve got two scientists and an engineer and a nun and a lawyer and a banker and a cop and an artist. That’s not a defence force, that’s a cop and six different kinds of nerd.”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
“There's more at stake here than just slavery, my brother. It's a question of who will own the land, the people, the power. You cannot stick a knife in a goat and then say, Now I will remove my knife slowly, so let things be easy and clean, let there be no mess. There will always be blood.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“our democracy is controlled by a wealthy elite. Politicians who work for the wealthy need the police to protect them from the people. And so the whole chain of command protects the killer cop. The ruling class give carte blanche to law enforcement, who in turn press down on those most stranded by the neoliberal state, the poor-- and more so, the Black poor."
-- Nicolas Powers”
― Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
-- Nicolas Powers”
― Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
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