Amber

“Nostalgia is a powerful tool of ignorance and retrenchment of the social order.”
― Danté Stewart, Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle

“So humanity is not the helpless plaything of a dead mechanism, but its development consists precisely in the growing power of the human mind over the dead mechanism of nature. But - and this is only said by historical materialism - the human spirit develops from, with and out of the material mode of production. The human mind is not the father of the mode of production, but the mode of production is the mother of the human mind.”
― Franz Mehring, On historical materialism

“and so mankind only posed for itself such tasks as it could solve. Looked at more closely, as Marx explains, it will be found that the task only arises where the material conditions for its solution are already in existence, or at least in the process of becoming.”
― Franz Mehring, On historical materialism

“We speak. We write. We do language. That is how we heal when our bodies bend and break. That is how the world heals when it is bruised. That is how I healed.”
― Danté Stewart, Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle