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“What reason does a man have to be beautiful?” Chief Kapika asked as he watched me spread the leaf on the dry dirt. “Beauty does not need a reason,” Okwu responded.
“Don’t lament when those worlds fall. Rage that they were built doomed in the first place.”
― The Stone Sky
― The Stone Sky
“I don’t have much to say except a warning. Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish. Similarly, when humans truly enter space and are freed from the Earth, they cease to be human. So, to all of you I say this: When you think about heading into outer space without looking back, please reconsider. The cost you must pay is far greater than you could imagine. *”
― Death's End
― Death's End
“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro.”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
“The statement brought up the old anger and confusion, followed by the accustomed guilt, that he should be so ungrateful as to resent the man who had rescued him from bondage. And yet he did resent Sir Stephen, even now.”
― Sorcerer to the Crown
― Sorcerer to the Crown
“Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.”
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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