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How does a people survive the painful realization that not only is their history full of oppression, persecution and massacre, but their future may also offer more of the same?

Because this mess I made I made with love,

actually crying because this is the first academic (and ethnographic yay) book on afroczech identities. i feel happy and seen. and im ready to add to the research on black identities in czechia in the future!

Home is where your loved ones are, but the reverse is also true. Those you love are your sanctuary, your shelter, your country and even, when it comes to that, your exile. Wherever they go, you will follow. :,,)

Khider is a protective spirit. He is also the patron of travellers, learners and lovers - which, Grandma says, often amounts to the same thing. :,,,)

Maybe they’re not worlds apart - science and poetry.

Because people Need songs like they need bread and water. People need poetry, beauty, love! So long as the sun rises and rivers flow, there will always be weddings and celebrations and music. Even fanatics cannot change that.

I hope all the books I’ve read will save my life

To walk into the world you never asked for and choose a place where your wanting ends - which part of war do we owe this knowledge?

'Gilgamesh... says the captive. 'He wished to conquer death and so he travelled to the ends of the world - but he failed. He did not see that the only way to become immortal is to be remembered after you have gone, and the only way to be remembered is to leave behind a good story. My king, why is it that you chose to make your story such a heartless one?'

I want to take care of our planet because I need a beautiful graveyard
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„The kiss lasted until I stopped fearing it would end and enjoyed it as a journey we’d just begun.”
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Strange to be exiled from your own sex to borders that will never be home.
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Všechny formy vykořisťování jsou si podobné. Všechny budou hledat své opodstatnění v nějakém výroku biblického rázu. Všechny formy vykořisťování jsou shodné, protože se všechny týkají téhož „objektu": člověka. Chceme-li se v rovině abstrakce zabývat strukturou tohoto či jiného vykořisťování, zastíráme hlavní, zásadní problém, jímž je navrácení člověka na jeho místo.

“I’m sorry for being useful only in language”

They didn't give me credit for having the same sensitivity, intellect, and understanding that they would have been ready and willing to recognize in a white boy in my position. But it has historically been the case with white people, in their regard for black people, that even though we might be with them, we weren't considered of them.

Looking at her, I thought, I do like the English. I love them. I detest their unreconstructed imperialism and prejudices, but, apart from that... And I immediately heard the rebuke, 'apart from that', spoken mockingly inside my head. It's true, I thought, I do not love the English. You cannot love an abstraction. But I do love Hannah.
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"To be from countries such as ours," Rana told him, "is to continually feel obliged to explain them."

"To be from countries, such as ours,” Rana told him, “is to continually feel obliged to explain them.”

„A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap.”

„A vast difference exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap.”

Nobody’s free without breaking open.
:,,,)