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‘“—rice is the tool of oppression, a tool that the bureaucrats use to control the lower classes, therefore white is the enemy. We must aim to visualize our true forms, our perfect forms, that the Grand Kami has divined for us. We are Black excellence. In our Blackness, we are divine. Release yourself from your shackles, my Sistahs, and free your mind.”’

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‘Across from us on the other side of the shore, the Hotep Gundam said, taken aback, “A white cat, my Sistahs?! Don’t you know that white is the enemy’s color? White is the color of rice, and rice is the tool—”’

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‘“...How bright the world would be if we all nurtured the light of little girls.”

“As bright as the summer sun,” I murmured.’

Awww I like these lines

“I flipped through my mental pages of the Sistah Samurai bestiary, searching for what sort of demon could possess multiple people at once, for surely the warlords were also infected. I frowned when I realized what we were facing—a demon that had plagued the Sistah Samurai ever since its inception.

The Misogyny Demon.”

Misogyny demon???

“...Once I felt strong enough to stand, I picked myself up and reached for my swords. I smiled, finally knowing the name of them:

Blue-eyes and White-dragon.”

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‘The Brotha Monk looked grim as he answered, “That was Warlord Tyrone, a friend to fuck niggas everywhere, and the leader of The Alliance of Hotep Warlords.”’

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‘“Tell our father that I’m done running away,” I told him. Then, I cocked back my leg and kicked loose dirt onto his front-laced white shoes.

“NO!!!!!!!!” he cried out like a wounded animal.’

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“He hovered taller than me, even though I was the tallest of the two of us. Perhaps he refused to put his feet on the ground to face that small insignificant piece of reality that seemed like a lifeline right now.”

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‘“I left the hood a long time ago.”

The ninja scoffed. She stood and with her free hand, adjusted the large black hood over her face, before declaring, “Once a hood ninja, always a hood ninja.”’

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‘“It’s called a Tamagotchi. Take good care of it. The battery won’t last.”

He handed it back over and I clutched it to my chest, alarmed. Because it was of demonic origin, I had hoped it would last forever. I was saddened to hear that, like all pets, it was just as mortal.’

Huh