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“For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Be wary of paramilitaries. When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“[C]olonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism.”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

“the colonizer, who in order to ease his conscience gets into the habit of seeing the other man as an animal, accustoms himself to treating him like an animal, and tends objectively to transform himself into an animal.”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“White people embrace narratives about forgiveness,” wrote the essayist and author Roxane Gay after the massacre, “so they can pretend the world is a fairer place than it actually is and that racism is merely a vestige of a painful past instead of this indelible part of our present.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“What they had not considered was that the people voting this way were, in fact, voting their interests. Maintaining the caste system as it had always been was in their interest.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents