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My future, she felt, should be spent not researching disability but overcoming it.
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“There are two prerequisites to growing wings: the first is to feel encircled and the second is to believe that you can break the circle.”
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“The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story”
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“I made myself listen to the birds singing squabbles and love songs. Occasionally I heard a war. Sharp mechanical sounds clashed with the nature music. Bells and whistles mashed together in nagging bursts. My new life was calling. I had to get on with it. Body historians, griots of the galaxy, we didn’t diddle ourselves in jungle paradises, we inhabited flesh to gather a genealogy of life. We sought the story behind all the stories.”
― So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy
― So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy
“What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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