Abyssinia

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Their Vicious Games

by Joelle Wellington (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: thriller, young-adult, currently-reading

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Jan 02, 2024 04:56PM

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Build Yourself a Boat

by Camonghne Felix

bookshelves: poetry, currently-reading

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Jan 28, 2023 03:16PM

“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

tags: liberation, oppression, resistance

494 likes

“Beware:
At war
Or at peace,
More people die
Of unenlightened self-interest
Than of any other disease.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

tags: death, peace, science-fiction, self-interest, selfishness, unenlightened-self-interest, war

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“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

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“i am mine.
before i am ever anyone else's.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma

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