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Antiracists should stop connecting selfishness to racism, and unselfishness to antiracism. Altruism is wanted, not required. Antiracists do not have to be altruistic. Antiracists do not have to be selfless. Antiracists merely have to have
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“The only desire the Culture could not satisfy from within itself was one common to both the descendants of its original human stock and the machines they had (at however great a remove) brought into being: the urge not to feel useless.”
― Consider Phlebas
― Consider Phlebas
“If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?”
― Use of Weapons
― Use of Weapons
“I am sorry to tell you this thing. You are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only a man. All you have to offer the world is your anger.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
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