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“The life upon her yellow hair, but not within her eyes--
The life still there upon her hair, the death upon her eyes.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

“You're a baby, said Robert. You've been asleep all your life. It's time to wake up. Why do you think they give you charity, you and the children? Because they think you are harmless, your eyes aren't opened, you don't see the truth around you.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K

“If we want to turn Africa into a new Europe, and America into a new Europe, then let us leave the destiny of our countries to Europeans. They will know how to do it better than the most gifted among us. But if we want humanity to advance a step further, if we want to bring it up to a different level than that which Europe has shown it, then we must invent and we must make discoveries.”
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

“I know it's nothing to you, but I was from a place, America, where cruelty toward humans who loved as their deepest instincts instructed was a kind of law.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me