Patrick

“Bertolt Brecht wrote in 1935, “How can anyone tell the truth about Fascism, unless he is willing to speak out against capitalism, which brings it forth?”
― Natasha Lennard, Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life

“DMX Death Threats Gun Death: 35, Generic Threat: 20, Beat Up to Death: 6, Non-Gun Weapon: 5, Robbery Death: 2, Death by Truth: 1 “Niggas wanna lie/Then niggas wonder why/Niggas wanna die” There are 69 death threats on DMX’s It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot”
― Shea Serrano, The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed

“Thanks to Rwanda’s lack of minerals, the world’s most powerful nation was content to let 800,000 people have their faces chopped off with machetes.”
― Nathan Robinson, Superpredator: Bill Clinton's Use and Abuse of Black America

“The internet, as its proponents rightly remind us, makes for variety and convenience; it does not force anything on you. Only it turns out it doesn’t feel like that at all. We don’t feel as if we had freely chosen our online practices. We feel instead that they are habits we have helplessly picked up or that history has enforced, that we are not distributing our attention as we intend or even like to.”1”
― Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains