“A true revolutionary position would not demand the land of others from the colonizer. To truly Free the Land”
― Negro Liberation
― Negro Liberation
“What’s death but going into another room?”
― The Library at Hellebore
― The Library at Hellebore
“It’d been my stepfather’s voice too and the voice of so many men I’d met before, all of them charming until privilege crashed into reality, then out came this aggression, this meanness.”
― The Library at Hellebore
― The Library at Hellebore
“He learned more about the Empire itself, its history and politics, philosophy and religion, its beliefs and mores, and its mixtures of subspecies and sexes. It seemed to him to be an unbearably vivid tangle of contradictions; at the same time pathologically violent and lugubriously sentimental, startlingly barbaric and surprisingly sophisticated, fabulously rich and grindingly poor (but also, undeniably, unequivocally fascinating).”
― The Player of Games
― The Player of Games
“Hate to tell you but the only time ‘real’ comes into it is when they’re shooting at you. In practice, ‘real’ means dead—anything else, there’s always room for some conversation.”
― Shadow Ticket
― Shadow Ticket
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