Renata

“Puno muškaraca s godinama pada u testosteronski autizam, koji se manifestira u polaganom nestajanju socijalne inteligencije i umijeća međuljudske komunikacije, a također oštećuje i oblikovanje misli. Čovjek napadnut tom Boljkom postaje šutljiv i čini se kao da je zadubljen u razmišljanje. Više ga zanimaju različite Naprave i strojevi. Privlače ga Drugi svjetski rat i biografije drugih ljudi, najčešće političara i zločinaca. Skoro potpuno nestaje njegova sposobnost za čitanje romana, testosteronski autizam remeti psihološko razumijevanje likova.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“During those weeks animals came up to her on the street and pushed their soft muzzles into her palm, and she always said the same two words, never wondering whether they were a lie or not, the words that dumb things depend on us to say—because when a dog runs to you and nudges against your hand for love and you say automatically, I know, I know, what else are you talking about except the world?”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

“Christians funny people, if your
Lord die for all our sins why you have prisons?”
― Nadifa Mohamed, The Fortune Men

“You see, while the people in the colonies were being told Britain was their mother, much of white Britain had convinced itself that these undeserving niggers - Asians were niggers too, back then - had just got off their banana boats to come and freeload, to take 'their' jobs and steal ‘their’ women. Never mind that Britain has a German royal family, a Norman ruling elite, a Greek patron saint, a Roman/Middle Eastern religion, Indian food as its national cuisine, an Arabic/Indian numeral system, a Latin alphabet and an identity predicated on a multi-ethnic, globe-spanning empire- ‘fuck the bloody foreigners'.
Never mind that waves of migration have been a constant in British history and that great many millions of ‘white' Britons are themselves descendants of Jewish, Eastern European and Irish migrants of the nineteenth century, nor that even in the post-war 'mass migration' years, Ireland and Europe were the largest source of immigrants. And, of course, let's say nothing about the millions of British emigrants, settlers and colonists abroad - conveniently labelled 'expats'.”
― Akala, Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire / Black Listed / Black and British: A Forgotten History