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Trying to find another finance book I can give to my parents 🥸

„What our leaders and their intellectual lackeys seem incapable of understanding is that history cannot be swept clean like a blackboard, clean so that “we” might inscribe our own future there and oppose our own forms of life for these lesser people to follow.“ - p. 20

„But what good does it do?“
„None at all.“
„A waste of effort.“
„A complete waste of effort,“ she answered brightly, as though the admission meant little to her.

„It was like being in love with someone he had never seen.“

Chapter 7 favorite quote: „He has the personality of a wet towel.“

Chapter 3 favorite quote: „Ramy was very fond of flapjacks. ‚They make oats taste so good!‘ he said. ‚I understand the joys of being a horse.‘“

HAHHAHA

Ch. 2: „He greatly enjoyed Mary Shelley‘s „Frankenstein“, though he could not say the same with the poems by her less talented husband, whom he found overly dramatic“ LOL

In chapter 10, Davis discusses that during her time being innocently incarcerated, she feared being executed in „the gas chamber“. It was complete news to me that there were gas chambers in the United States, which is why I googled it. In the Californian San Quentin prison, 1937 they made prisoners build one, which was in use until 1995. 196 people were executed using this method, until it was ruled to cruel.

Chapter 9: „[…] It is important for us to think forward and to imagine future history, in a way that is not restrained by our own lifetimes.“

Love this quote from chapter 7 discussing ‚All lives matter‘ slogan usage: „[…] Universal proclamations have always bolstered racism. More often than not, universal categories have been clandestinely racialized. Any critical engagement with racism requires us to understand the tyranny of the universal. For most of our history, the category ‚Human‘ has not embraced Black people and People of Color.“