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“The people of Latin-America ethnologically are very little different from the Afro-American of this country,” a columnist for the Chicago Defender, a Black newspaper, wrote in 1915. “They have Indian blood in their veins; so have we. They ...more
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N.K. Jemisin
“This is what you must remember: the ending of one story is just the beginning of another. This has happened before, after all. People die. Old orders pass. New societies are born. When we say “the world has ended,” it’s usually a lie, because the planet is just fine. But this is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. For the last time.”
N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

Colson Whitehead
“You can change the law but you can’t change people and how they treat each other.”
Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

John Scalzi
“There were more than a few scientists who knew one little thing, and then thought that knowledge was universally applicable to every other problem, to the point of excluding or discounting information from people whose specialty was that other problem.”
John Scalzi, The Consuming Fire

James S.A. Corey
“Seemed like a fact of the universe that the closer you got to anything, the worse it looked.”
James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

Terry Brooks
“There was a madness in the scheme of life that men were forced to accept either with resigned fury or blunt indifference”
Terry Brooks, The Sword of Shannara

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