“A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.” PeoplePersonsFormUnderstandingBlackDealsPrinciplesEvolutionEssentialsSkinsMachinesIntelligentEnvironmentalFinalsLimitationMachineryOur EnvironmentReproductionMetallicAnthropic PrincipleIntelligent Machines Author:Frank J. Tipler
“You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.” ShouldHumansMeanBlackMistakeMachinesMarkEndureNonsenseTedious Book:The pillow book Source: The pillow book
“The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.” WarWholeKidsCultureSocialBlackCommunityJusticeCitiesPolicyDrugCreatingWeaponsRacismTestsMachinesResponsibleCourtContraryDestroyedDecentNeighborhoodCracksJailCentsCopProhibitionDealerBureaucratsWar On DrugsInvestigatorsGroundworkSocial Policy Book:No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays Source: No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays
“I think I'm doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what's wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that's living, or rather it should.” ThinkingShouldMeanSexBlackMachinesAppealsBlack WomenDarlingPortraying Author:Grace Jones
“I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.” EndsEarthFacesBlackMistakeMachinesWipeEpoch Book:Lady Chatterley's Lover Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover