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Sherri - Obsidian Texts and Tangents

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“For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

tags: inspirational, social-justice

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“We aren't human."

"Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

tags: alienation, caste, caste-system, classification, humanity, labeling, labels, oppression, outcast, outcasts, taxonomy

112 likes

“All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
is Change.

God
is Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler

tags: change, god

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“Complaining about nothing doesn't seem like coping to you, but okay.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate

tags: complaining, coping-mechanisms, malcontents

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“There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and taken, until there's nothing left but hope, and you've given that up because it hurts too much. Until you would rather die, or kill, or avoid attachments altogether, than lose one more thing.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate

tags: grief, grief-and-loss, hope, loss, loss-of-hope

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