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“Money is a mind, the oldest artificial intelligence. Its prime directives are simple, its programming endlessly creative. Humans obey it unthinkingly, with cheerful alacrity. Like a virus, it doesn't care if it kills its host.”
― Blackfish City
― Blackfish City
“My work on Orange has taught me this: Human beings are not categorically bad because of their mistakes. They can learn from their errors and get back on track. No one should be forever written off because of one part of his or her history.”
― In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
― In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
“(once upon an afternoon
i became still-life
i carried a balloon
and a long black knife.)”
― Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
i became still-life
i carried a balloon
and a long black knife.)”
― Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
“And yet the world we live in—its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence—is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.”
― King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
― King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Think Galactic
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A book club based in the Boston area dedicated to reading feminist science fiction (and sometimes fantasy).
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