Ivy Inwoner

“the real origins of money are to be found in crime and recompense, war and slavery, honor, debt, and redemption. That,”
― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

“The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“So far from realizing philosophy, the spectacle philosophizes reality, and turns the material life of everyone into a universe of speculation.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

“Europeans never had the remotest intention of raising Africans to the Western level, of sharing with them the instruments of physical, political or economic power. It was precisely their intention, their necessity, to keep the people they ruled in a state of cultural anarchy, that is, simply in a barbaric state. “The famous inferiority complex one is pleased to observe as a characteristic of the colonized is no accident but something very definitely desired and deliberately inculcated by the colonizer.”
― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name