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In America, we are still arguing over the meaning of sentences drafted over candlelight by slaveholders nearly one hundred years before Darwin posited the theory of evolution.
“Honey girl, I don't care what you do, as long as you're kind to everyone you meet."
"That's it?"
"That is the hardest part of being alive.”
― Saga, Volume 9
"That's it?"
"That is the hardest part of being alive.”
― Saga, Volume 9
“Gmorning!
You're gonna make mistakes.
You're gonna fail.
You're gonna get back up.
You're gonna break hearts.
You're gonna change minds.
You're gonna make noise.
You're gonna make music.
You're gonna be late, let's GO.
Gnight!
You're gonna fall down.
You're gonna be tested.
You're gonna learn about yourself.
You're gonna get brave.
You're gonna take stands.
You're gonna make waves.
You're gonna make history.
You're gonna need rest, REST UP.”
― Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You
You're gonna make mistakes.
You're gonna fail.
You're gonna get back up.
You're gonna break hearts.
You're gonna change minds.
You're gonna make noise.
You're gonna make music.
You're gonna be late, let's GO.
Gnight!
You're gonna fall down.
You're gonna be tested.
You're gonna learn about yourself.
You're gonna get brave.
You're gonna take stands.
You're gonna make waves.
You're gonna make history.
You're gonna need rest, REST UP.”
― Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You
“White as the default, white as the center, white as the norm, is the central part of the master narrative. The centrality of whiteness—how it constructed white versus black, legal versus illegal—hurts not only people of color who aren’t white but also white people who can’t carry the burden of what they’ve constructed.”
― Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
― Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
“Cash has disappeared so quickly from Chinese cities that it even “disrupted” crime. In March 2017, a pair of Chinese cousins made headlines with a hapless string of robberies. The pair had traveled to Hangzhou, a wealthy city and home to Alibaba, with the goal of making a couple of lucrative scores and then skipping town. Armed with two knives, the cousins robbed three consecutive convenience stores only to find that the owners had almost no cash to hand over—virtually all their customers were now paying directly with their phones. Their crime spree netted them around $125 each—not even enough to cover their travel to and from Hangzhou—when police picked them up. Local media reported rumors that upon arrest one of the brothers cried out, “How is there no cash left in Hangzhou?”
― AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
― AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
“Kevin Kelly: So when I think of the future of Silicon Valley I see it as still being the center of the universe as defined by having the least resistance to new ideas, and that’s just its cultural history of being tolerant of wild ideas. Lee Felsenstein: Silicon Valley is a state of mind in a generalized physical area.”
― Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley
― Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley
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