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“Scars are like years, he said: one follows another and it's all of them together that make a person who they are.”
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“Systems of racism and sexism and oppression are not systems we choose, but they are ones we inherit and are responsible for perpetuating, or not. When I hear so-and-so was "a product of his/her time" as an excuse for bigoted behavior, I remind folks that there have always been people in every time who did not agree with the bigoted systems they were born into and who actively fought them. The question is, which are we?”
― The Geek Feminist Revolution
― The Geek Feminist Revolution
“That I am in direct mind-to-mind touch with extraterrestrial intelligence systems has been obvious to me for some time, but what this means is not in any way obvious.”
― The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
― The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
“But the girl shook her head, clucked her tongue in distaste. 'If I marry him, my children will be ugly,' she declared.
That night, lying next to Edward in his room, Yaw listened as his best friend told him that he had explained to the girl that you could not inherit a scar.
Now, nearing his fiftieth birthday, Yaw no longer knew if he believed this was true.”
― Homegoing
That night, lying next to Edward in his room, Yaw listened as his best friend told him that he had explained to the girl that you could not inherit a scar.
Now, nearing his fiftieth birthday, Yaw no longer knew if he believed this was true.”
― Homegoing
“Sometimes the world around you makes you do things you would never do out of the circumstances”
― SG - Suicide Game
― SG - Suicide Game
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