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Highlight from ‘Morning Star’ by Pierce Brown
Phobos means fear. In myth, he was the offspring of Aphrodite and Ares, the child of love and war.
Pierce Brown in Morning Star
Highlight from ‘Morning Star’ by Pierce Brown
“I wonder when you started believing grit and vision were the same thing.”
Pierce Brown in Morning Star
Highlight from ‘Morning Star’ by Pierce Brown
In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that’s left is their utility. War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them. And woe to those who have no use in war except to feed the machines.
Pierce Brown in Morning Star
Highlight from ‘Stamped From the Beginning’ by Ibram X. Kendi
One of the scientists responsible for sequencing the human genome, Craig Venter, was even more frank with reporters. “The concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis,” Venter said. His research team at Celera Genomics had determined “the genetic code” of five individuals, who were identified as either “Hispanic, Asian, Caucasian or African American,” and the scientists could not tell one race from another.
Ibram X. Kendi in Stamped From the Beginning
Highlight from ‘Stamped From the Beginning’ by Ibram X. Kendi
Cosby envisioned the ultimate uplift suasion show about a stereotype-defying family uplifted by their own striving beyond the confines of discriminated Blackness. He believed he was showing African Americans what was possible if they worked hard enough and stopped their antiracist activism. Cosby and his millions of loyal viewers actually believed that The Cosby Show and its spinoffs were persuading away the racist ideas of its millions of White viewers.
Ibram X. Kendi in Stamped From the Beginning