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Reading for the 2nd time
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Reading for the 2nd time
I am delighted that your eyes have met these words!
“Why are people that poor? Why are people that broke? Why are people that food insecure, that clothing insecure, that they feel like their only shot, that they are shooting their shot by walking through a broken glass window to get what they need?”
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“Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you’re not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.”
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“The tree of our family was parted - branches here, roots there - parted for their lumber.”
― The Water Dancer
― The Water Dancer
“Racism, I maintain, was not simply a convention for ordering the relations of European to non-European peoples but has its genesis in the “internal” relations of European peoples.”
― Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
― Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
“factories enslaved the hands of children, and that child-bearing enslaved the bodies of women, and that rum enslaved the souls of men. In that moment I understood, from that whirlwind of ideas, that this secret war was waged against something more than the Taskmasters of Virginia, that we sought not merely to improve the world, but to remake it. I”
― The Water Dancer
― The Water Dancer
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