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“The Ainu have not intentionally forgotten their culture and their language. It is the modern Japanese state that, from the Meiji era on, usurped our land, destroyed our culture, and deprived us of our language under the euphemism of assimilation. In the space of a mere 100 years, they nearly decimated the Ainu culture and language that had taken tens of thousands of years to come into being on this earth.”
― Kayano Shigeru, Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir

“machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“In other words, white fears rest on the presumption that they are rooted in fact; everyone who is nonwhite is treated as though their fears are the stuff of fantasy.”
― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower