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In a Free State

by V.S. Naipaul

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My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography

by Leon Trotsky

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“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: ferguson, intersectional-feminism, michael-brown, race-relations, trayvon-martin

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“Somewhat paradoxically, the more that Africans and their descendants assimilated cultural materials from colonial society, the less human they became in the minds of the colonists.”
― Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

tags: africa, colonialism, dehumanization, slavery

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“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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