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if i threw this book at someone, anyone, it would kill them.

god i wish i wasnt 3 years old when obama won. that must have been glorious to see.

reflecting and i fear this book is great but will not have much re-readability for me. making me think about race wayyyyyyyy too much. and i already think about race way too much.

the essence magazine rant

“they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness.”

“conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real lives happened in that somewhere else.”

“hungry for choice and certainty.”

a startling and moving reminder of how hard i have worked - and how hard i have to keep working.

the reality that i am living a life that once seemed so imaginary and out of reach.

feeling sad and very very anxious about the future, but unimaginably and overwhelmingly grateful. so so so so grateful.

“I was born into privilege. I am not going to squander that. I’m not a moron.”

“Nothing hurt Reva more than effortless beauty, like mine.”

i love this bitch

ITS SUMMERTIME 🤪🤪🤪

“All the men I’d ever been with, young as well as old, had been detached and unfriendly.”

“Even if a robot that maintains your health will only cost a penny in some advanced future, how will you earn that penny? Manual labor will be unpaid since the cheap robot will do it. In the open culture, future, your creativity and expression would also be unpaid, since you would be a volunteer in the army of thelong tail. That would leave nothing for you.”

“It’s the people who make the forum, not the software… Focusing too much on the software might even make things worse by shifting the focus from the people.”