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“The future is always here in the past”

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Amiri Baraka, born Leroy Jones, was an American writer, poet, playwright, political activist, and music critic. His work spanned poetry, novels, plays, and music criticism, and had a profound impact on American literature and black culture. more

“You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.”

Humans Problem Animal Saws Pride Cancer Acknowledge Characteristics Closest Human Intelligence

Author:Octavia Butler

“The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments”

Humans Different Earth Differences Results Environment Groups Perceive Isolation Adaptation Mutation Inbreeding

Book:Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago

Source: Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago

“Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.”

Brain Who I Am

Book:Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago

Source: Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago

“I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.”

Years Remember Three Ten Fifty Someday Three Years Eighty Three Year Olds

Author:Octavia Butler

“I lost an arm on my last trip home.”

Home Lasts Lost Arms

Book:Kindred

Source: Kindred

“The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.”

Way Country Purpose Justice Resources Educational Tragic Truth And Justice Purpose Of Education True Purpose

Author:Anne Sullivan Macy

“The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.”

Humans Kind Art Seems Beautiful Perfect Savages Bark Perfect Things

Author:William C. Bryant

“A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.”

Fields Politician Division Quarrels Spoil Herds Prairie Melons

Author:William C. Bryant

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