Kevin Bluer

“The sixth member of the crew cared for none of these things, for it was not human. It was the highly advanced HAL 9000 computer, the brain and nervous system of the ship.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“He did not ever mistreat me. But it was no kindness; for I knew this must all end, that I would be returned to the cane fields and their brutality someday. And so I did not allow myself to grow comfortable, but instead scrambled after thermometers tossed in the grass, gathered his dropped scopes, carefully folded leaves into the long wooden box he called his vasculum, feeling each evening only relief that I had not been punished.”
― Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

“A central problem with the idea that wars are needed to combat evil is that there is nothing more evil than war. War causes more suffering and death than anything war can be used to combat.”
― David Swanson, War Is A Lie

“We must all take on faith the stories of our birth, for though we are in them, we are not yet present.”
― Esi Edugyan, Washington Black