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| 1be5516 | Unfortunately, oppression does not automatically produce only meaningful struggle. It has the ability to call into being a wide range of responses between partial acceptance and violent rebellion. In between you can have, for instance, a vague, unfocused dissatisfaction; or, worst of all, savage infighting among the oppressed, a fierce love-hate entanglement with one another like crabs inside the fisherman's bucket, which ensures that no cr.. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| cd6b039 | The foreign correspondent is frequently the only means of getting an important story told, or of drawing the world's attention to disasters in the making or being covered up. Such an important role is risky in more ways than one. It can expose the correspondent to actual physical danger; but there is also the moral danger of indulging in sensationalism and dehumanizing the sufferer. This danger immediately raises the question of the charact.. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 7e7d96d | The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience. | experience language | Chinua Achebe | |
| e79c39f | Dickens has not seen it all. The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their only weapon against life, life is all that they have. This is why the dispossessed and starving will never be convinced (though some may be coerced) by the population-control programs of the civilized. I have watched the dispossessed and starving laboring in the fields which others own, with their.. | important powerful profound revolution | James Baldwin | |
| 973d23e | To accept one's past--one's history--is not the same thing as drowning it it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought. | James Baldwin | ||
| 931d7c0 | These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. They were filled with rage. All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which were now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once mo.. | James Baldwin | ||
| 1c77d37 | Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent--which attitude certainly has a great deal to support it. On the other hand, it is only because the world looks on his talent with such frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important. | culture society talent writing | James Baldwin | |
| 40b3df5 | It doesn't do any good to fight with Sonny. Sonny just moves back, inside himself, where he can't be reached. | James Baldwin | ||
| fe6f681 | n lqlb lkrym ymkn 'n yHb mn qbyl lshfq@ | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 804914c | Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys? | Robert Cormier | ||
| fc23bd7 | You're very insistent, but I'm very busy. | insistent | Ralph Ellison | |
| 49985db | Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two... | freedom poor rich the-diamond-as-big-as-the-ritz | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| aa0d4b0 | Do we have a plan?" "A couple." Jim said. "Either of them good?" "Oh, no. Not at all. Just different flavors of terrible." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 397d087 | No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 83a299a | Well, mostly I'm a mechanic. But the idea that the UN has a file on me somewhere that lists me as the Rocinante's killer? That's kind of awesome. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 8201c6b | The best scientific minds of the system were staring at the data with their jaws slack, and the reason no one was panicking yet was that no one could agree on what they should panic about. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 3e62f7e | We're not making any official statements, especially when James Holden's in the room. No offense, but your track record for blurting information at inopportune moments is the stuff of legend. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| b30fa64 | They're all fucking men," she said. "Excuse me?" Soren said. "The generals. They're all fucking men." "I thought Souther was the only--" "I don't mean that they all fuck men. I mean they're all men, the fuckers. How long has it been since a woman was in charge of the armed forces? Not since I came here. So instead, we wind up with another example of what happens to policy when there's too much testosterone in the room." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 42ec82f | No, it wasn't. It was the scariest fucking answer to Fermi's paradox I can think of. Do you know why there aren't any Indians in your Old West analogy? Because they're already dead. The whatever-they-were that built all that got a head start and used their protomolecule gate builder to kill all the rest. And that's not even the scary part. The really frightening part is that something else came along, shot the first guys in the back of the .. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 16ef989 | They'd made a plan, and so far everything was more or less going the way they'd hoped. The thought left Holden increasingly terrified. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 9e974a6 | In his opinion, faith was generally for people who were bad at math. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 709928f | I know it's none of my business, but I really wouldn't let her put you off. So you don't understand sex and love and women. Just means you were born with a cock. And this girl? Naomi? She seems like she's worth putting a little effort into it. You know?" "Yeah," Holden said. Then: "Can we never talk about that again?" "Sure." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 064620a | In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right... | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| ff307b1 | Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say. | Elizabeth Moon | ||
| f8797ab | We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them, not what we get out. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8f2d7d6 | Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin. | rheumatism soul | L.M. Montgomery | |
| c2f0ae0 | I'm going home to an old country farmhouse, once green, rather faded now, set among leafless apple orchards. There is a brook below and a December fir wood beyond, where I've heard harps swept by the fingers of rain and wind. There is a pond nearby that will be gray and brooding now. There will be two oldish ladies in the house, one tall and thin, one short and fat; and there will be two twins, one a perfect model, the other what Mrs. Lynde.. | love | L.M. Montgomery | |
| cd183fb | She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness. | laughter | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 2f5489d | But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take what ever God sends. | hope l-m-montgomery prepare | L.M. Montgomery | |
| c45262e | At that moment Marilla had a revelation. In the sudden stab of fear that pierced her very heart she realized what Anne had come to mean to her. She would have admitted that she liked Anne--nay, that she was very fond of Anne. But now she knew as she hurried wildly down the slope that Anne was dearer to her than anything else on earth | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b71ab18 | I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment... | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| c8d8ac3 | How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view, | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b22fafb | It was a gracious evening, full of delectable lights and shadows. In the west was a sky of mackerel clouds-crimson and amber-tinted, with long strips of apple-green sky between. Beyond was the glimmering radiance of a sunset sea, and the ceaseless voice of many waters came up from the tawny shore. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 9e530f2 | Imagination is what you need. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 075a375 | Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers. | mothers mothers-and-sons sons young-men | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 6f82ef6 | Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them ," parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically." | l-m-montgomery wise | L.M. Montgomery | |
| c546ad7 | The eastern sky above the firs was flushed faintly pink from the reflection of the west, and Anne was wondering dreamily if the spirit of color looked like that... | spirit | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 2199858 | It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice...Well, anyway, when I grow up, I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words. | growing-up | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 6ac51b6 | The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones, aren't they? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 03ef012 | Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person - the personal - citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challe.. | bell hooks | ||
| af0c579 | Within neo-colonial white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the black male body continues to be perceived as an embodiment of bestial, violent, penis-as-weapon hypermasculine assertion. Psychohistories of white racism have always called attention to the tension between the construction of black male body as danger and the underlying eroticization that always then imagines that body as a location for transgressive pleasure. It has taken con.. | fetishism objectification | bell hooks | |
| 4c9b27d | Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes. | bell hooks | ||
| 37fa8bc | I had the strength to rebel, but I did not have the strength to let go. | bell hooks | ||
| 08b2ac9 | Our freedom is sweet. It will be sweeter when we are all free. | bell hooks |