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“that the re-subordination of those emancipated was only natural considering the power structures in which this freedom was and continues to operate within. Rendering the Black body as a species body, encouraging a Blackness which is defined as abject, threatening, servile, dangerous, dependent, irrational and infectious, finding yourself being constrained in a way you did not ask for, in a way which could not possibly contain all that you are, all that you could be, could want to be.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“And then there was Kate Sheffield. The bane of his existence. And the object of his desires. All at once.”
― Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me