Gabriel Avocado

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Gabriel’s Bookshelves

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Gabriel’s Quotes

“At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there is Hitler.”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

tags: capitalism, colonialism, culture, fascism, imperialism

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“Nazism was the application of colonialism to Europe.”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

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“racial melancholia” to refer to histories of racial loss that are condensed into a forfeited object whose significance must be deciphered and unraveled for its social meanings.”
― David L. Eng, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans

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“I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more than just the people trying to destroy us.”
― B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

tags: abuse, queer, self-destruction, suicide, survival

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“The Malleus Maleficarum, the definitive guide for witch hunters published in 1486, wrote of a woman who stole dozens of penises, then hid them in a tree where they lived like birds in a nest.”
― David M. Friedman, A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis

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