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“Whenever people say “everything,” “always,” “never,” “every,” they’re really only talking about themselves—in the real world such generalities don’t exist.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night

“Melancholy is part of social movement, as is restraint. They are companions. The work of organizing for freedom requires a management of rage that can break your heart. There is no good reason one should have to endure spittle and bombs, insult, dogs, and jail in order to achieve simple legal recognition.”
― Imani Perry, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

“Haiti has suffered. The first free Black republic was punished for its valor. The debt imposed upon it in exchange for a too-meager and inconsistent political recognition has kept it beholden to France, and along with that, it has born the weight of the US empire’s strategic investments and habitual efforts at military control. Internally, color and caste continued to matter long after the French were gone. Raimond changed, but the legacy of that plantation hierarchy is felt even today.”
― Imani Perry, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

“When dreams repeat events from the past, when they mangle them, turn them into images, and sift them through a web of meanings, I start to fear that the past, just like the future, will remain obscure and inscrutable forever. The fact that I have experienced something doesn’t mean I have understood it. Suppose it turned out that something I thought I knew about and had always regarded as fixed and certain might have happened for a completely different reason and in a way I had never suspected. That it had led me to the wrong conclusion, and that I had failed to go in the right direction because I was blind, or asleep.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night