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"When our actions begin to integrate with our beliefs, when we are doing some of the work that we know needs to be done, we have less need for the various doubles our culture offers up disguised as a good life."

"The idea that each one of us has a look alike walking around somewhere means that no one is quite special or unique as we might have imagined ourselves to be."

"What Du Bois and Césaire tried to tell us is that culture, language, science, and economy are no protection against genocide - all it takes is sufficient military force wielded by a power willing to denounce your culture as savage and declare you brutes."

"This is surely why the Bannons of the world, bankrolled by a rotating cast of billionaires, love conspiracy theories, whether they personally believe them or not: they reliably shift attention away from the scandals we know about and that many have already painstakingly proved, and focus us, perennially, on something more explosive, something that is on the verge of being proved, but never quite yet."

"The horror of the society that flips fascist from within - without the aid of a foreign invasion - lies precisely in this unsettling feeling of familiarity. When that ferocious force is conjured up to wage war on a portion of the domestic population, there are no outsiders to blame. It's the nice, normal people down the street who turn out to be capable of monstrosity."