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“Don’t throw tantrums; that’s unprofessional.”
― Joan Bolker, Write Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

“Destruction, in other words, is an effort to differentiate. In childhood, if things go well, destruction results simply in survival;”
― Jessica Benjamin, The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination

“While Darwin's tear is a defense, and Freud's tear is a symptomatic eruption, Sartre's tear is a refusal.”
― Eugenie Brinkema, The Forms of the Affects

“black studies illuminates the essential role that racializing assemblages play in the construction of modern selfhood, works toward the abolition of Man, and advocates the radical reconstruction and decolonization of what it means to be human. In doing so, black studies pursues a politics of global liberation beyond the genocidal shackles of Man.3”
― Alexander G. Weheliye, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human