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“What reason does a man have to be beautiful?” Chief Kapika asked as he watched me spread the leaf on the dry dirt. “Beauty does not need a reason,” Okwu responded.
“All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God”
― Parable of the Sower
― Parable of the Sower
“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro.”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
“Why do I even love him anymore? Nassun finds herself thinking as she stares at her father.”
― The Obelisk Gate
― The Obelisk Gate
“Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.”
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“I don’t have much to say except a warning. Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish. Similarly, when humans truly enter space and are freed from the Earth, they cease to be human. So, to all of you I say this: When you think about heading into outer space without looking back, please reconsider. The cost you must pay is far greater than you could imagine. *”
― Death's End
― Death's End
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