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Who Fears Death
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Death isn’t the end of a life, but the division of it. When someone dies, their soul scatters into all the things they’ve ever given away. Love. Bruises. Gifts. You struggle to piece together what’s left—even the things that hurt—just to ...more
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Michael Harriot
“Through a complex combination of whitewashing, guilt, and an intentional recasting of history that absolves them of their hatred, our historical translators have painted a sanitized, impressionist portrait of a struggle for Black liberation that was eventually fulfilled by American’s unwavering commitment to justice and equality. Out of whole cloth, they managed to fabricate a fantastic ahistorical myth that somehow became truth. They remember a socially conservative, respectable campaign of racial reconciliation, not a movement of anti-establishment revolutionaries. And for their sake, the doctrine of nonviolent resistance was eventually reduced to simple ‘nonviolence.’ They never speak of the ‘resisting.”
Michael Harriot, Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Suzanne Collins
“And that’s part of our trouble. Thinking things are inevitable. Not believing change is possible.”
Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

Samantha Harvey
“Because who can look at man’s neurotic assault on the planet and find it beautiful? Man’s hubris. A hubris so almighty it’s matched only by his stupidity.”
Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Samantha Harvey
“How are we writing the future of humanity? We're not writing anything, it's writing us. We're windblown leaves. We think we're the wind, but we're just the leaf.”
Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Suzanne Collins
“The moment our hearts shattered? It belongs to us.”
Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

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