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The air was heavy with their good times as the white people scattered across the tiered patios, pried their mouths apart, and beamed their laughter into each other’s faces.


“This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore

“Time turns our lies into truths.”
― Shadow & Claw
― Shadow & Claw

“Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.”
― The Telling
― The Telling

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― The Dispossessed
― The Dispossessed
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