Chip Howell

“Well, God's not real... and I am so, do that with that.”
― Trixie Mattel

“You know that there are no black people in Africa,” she said. Most Americans, we have to sit with that statement. It sounds nonsensical to our ears. Of course there are black people in Africa. There is a whole continent of black people in Africa. How could anyone not see that? “Africans are not black,” she said. “They are Igbo and Yoruba, Ewe, Akan, Ndebele. They are not black. They are just themselves. They are humans on the land. That is how they see themselves, and that is who they are.” What we take as gospel in American culture is alien to them, she said. “They don’t become black until they go to America or come to the U.K.,” she said. “It is then that they become black.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“Empire– in essence nothing but mechanisms for exploiting coloured labor.”
― George Orwell

“And he realized with an abrupt sense shock that he had been giving more and more reliance to prescient memory and it had weakened him for this particular emergency.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune