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My future, she felt, should be spent not researching disability but overcoming it.
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“That educated didn’t mean smart. He had a point. Nothing in my education or knowledge of the future had helped me to escape. Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom.”
― Kindred
― Kindred
“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
“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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“Am I to be cursed forever with becoming somebody else on the way to myself?”
― The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
― The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
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