Marcella

“Is this a Nifty?'

Say this in reference to an NFT. Bonus points if you can convince him that it's basically a Neopet that launders money.”
― Kyle Prue, How to Piss Off Men: 106 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego

“In America you had the forced removal of the native onto reservations coupled with slavery followed by segregation. Imagine all three of those things happening to the same group of people at the same time. That was apartheid.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“The residue from radium extraction looked like seaside sand, and the company had offloaded this industrial waste by selling it to schools and playgrounds to use in their children’s sandboxes; kids’ shoes were reported to have turned white because of it, while one little boy complained to his mother of a burning sensation in his hands. Yet, in comments that made reassuring reading, von Sochocky pronounced the sand “most hygienic”10 for children to play in, “more beneficial than the mud of world-renowned curative baths.”11”
― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

“A comida faltava e a mata criou as ‘comunas’, frutos secos, grandes amêndoas, cujo caroço era partido à faca e se comia natural ou assado. As ‘comunas’ eram alimentícias, tinham óleo e proteínas, davam energia, por isso se chamavam ‘comunas’. E o sítio onde os frutos eram armazenados e assados recebeu o nome de ‘Casa do Partido’. O ‘comunismo’ fez engordar os homens, fê-los restabelecer dos sete dias de marchas forçadas e de emoções.”
― Pepetela, Mayombe