Gabriel Avocado

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“I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more than just the people trying to destroy us.”
― B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

tags: abuse, queer, self-destruction, suicide, survival

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“Nazism was the application of colonialism to Europe.”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

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“How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?”
― Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

tags: acts-of-service, body, desire, lillian-fishman

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“A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.

A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.

A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

tags: civilization, colonialism, society

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“At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there is Hitler.”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

tags: capitalism, colonialism, culture, fascism, imperialism

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