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Michelle Alexander
“A survey was conducted in 1995 asking the following question: “Would you close your eyes for a second, envision a drug user, and describe that person to me?” The startling results were published in the Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education. Ninety-five percent of respondents pictured a black drug user, while only 5 percent imagined other racial groups.39 These results contrast sharply with the reality of drug crime in America. African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today. Whites constituted the vast majority of drug users then (and now), but almost no one pictured a white person when asked to imagine what a drug user looks like. The same group of respondents also perceived the typical drug trafficker as black.”
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Jamaica Kincaid
“I only now understand why it is that people lie about their past, why they say they are one thing other than the thing they really are, why they invent a self that bears no resemblance to who they really are, why anyone would want to feel as if he or she belongs to nothing, comes from no one, just fell out of the sky, whole.”
Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother

Madawi AlRasheed مضاوي الرشيد
“Like most people who live on the edge, she spoke with two accents, neither authentic.”
Madawi Al-Rasheed, A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
“This land used to yield. Rains used not to fail. What happened?’ inquired Ruoro. It was Muturi who answered. ‘You forget that in those days the land was not for buying. It was for use. It was also plenty, you need not have beaten one yard over and over again.”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Petals of Blood

Karl Marx
“All pursuit of commodity production becomes at the same time pursuit of the exploitation of labour-power; but only capitalist commodity production is an epoch-making mode of exploitation, which in the course of its historical development revolutionizes the entire economic structure of society by its organization of the labour process and its gigantic extension of technique, and towers incomparably above all earlier epochs.”
Karl Marx, Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Vol 2

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