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“But what did it mean to find me, a slave, dreaming amid those books?”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“But that’s the great contradiction of colonialism.’ Cathy uttered this like a simple matter of fact. ‘It’s built to destroy that which it prizes most.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“...it was never the costume that made the Quality, but how the lady wore it.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“They could have done anything to us out there, done anything to her, for this was the normal path of things. It was the necessary right of the Low, who held no property in man, to hold momentary property in those who ran, and to vent all their awful passions upon them.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer