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“Somewhere in my mind, freedom is about empowerment, about envisioning a future for yourself—or even being certain of such a future. The freedom to imagine is power. If your worldview is built on your subjugation, if you—to whatever conscious or unconscious extent—normalize your own abuse, where does the freedom to imagine come from?”

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Book:Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture
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