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whose mouth lolled open with glistening saliva, ready for the giant dick of reality.
“Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
― Peril at End House
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
― Peril at End House
“The principal function of racist ideas in American history has been the suppression of resistance to racial discrimination and its resulting racial disparities. The beneficiaries of slavery, segregation, and mass incarceration have produced racist ideas of Black people being best suited for or deserving of the confines of slavery, segregation, or the jail cell. Consumers of these racist ideas have been led to believe there is something wrong with Black people, and not the policies that have enslaved, oppressed, and confined so many Black people.”
― Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
― Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
“when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. ”
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“The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.”
― The Alienist
― The Alienist
“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Operation Einstein
― Operation Einstein
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