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“Incorrect,” I said. “The saints are saints, by definition. Have you ever heard of Saint Drogo? One of my favorites. Patron saint of mute people, the mentally ill, and coffee. If that’s not a power triumvirate, then I don’t know what is.”
― Duchess Goldblatt

“Agitators claimed that white workers could not compete against the hardworking and frugal Chinese, who were, in what seemed to be a contradictory prejudice, perceived as racially and culturally inferior in many fundamental ways. Racists held that white workers could not compete against Chinese, but also that they should not have to. The railroad that Chinese had helped build produced a terrible unintended consequence.”
― Gordon H. Chang, Ghosts Of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad

“He turned his head and looked back at me: Believe you have wings, and you fly. Believe you are an animal, and you roar. Believe you are dead in the mud, and you sleep with the worms in the mud. No matter what you decide, provide counsel to your people as they are removed.”
― Brandon Hobson, The Removed

“So anyway, speaking of trans,” Reese decides to say to Katrina. “Does your work send you to lots of queer events like this, or is this your first time being out with one and a half trans women?”
― Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby