Bianca Newby
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The creatures of the night have no culture, no pity, no mind, yet it consumes whatever it pleases.
“Someone’s got to teach these fools: Never disrespect a Black woman.”
― Sistah Samurai
― Sistah Samurai
“Yes, all those able-bodied people didn’t know how good they had it. They could make erudite-sounding pronouncements about how they just liked the smell of books, or the feel of the paper, or the sense of tension that came from the thickness of the remaining pages reducing beneath their fingers, and others would listen unquestioningly to what they were saying.”
― Hunchback
― Hunchback
“The question isn’t: How do I stop feeling this way? That’s stupid. I can’t. The question is: What can I do with this feeling?”
― Blood Over Bright Haven
― Blood Over Bright Haven
“Because good people can turn desperate when the horrors are upon them—especially people whose culture of plenty has left them with no systems to cope with scarcity or cataclysm. Good people will turn monstrous when it’s down to their survival or someone else’s.”
― Blood Over Bright Haven
― Blood Over Bright Haven
“Being able to see; being able to hold a book; being able to turn its page; being able to maintain a reading posture; being able to go to a bookshop to buy a book - I loathed the exclusionary machismo of book culture that demanded that its participants meet these five criteria of able-bodiedness. I loathed, too, the ignorant arrogance of all those self-professed book-lovers so oblivious to their privilege.”
― Hunchback
― Hunchback
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