No voting on who gets to be people.

N.K. Jemisin
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  1. For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.

  2. You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.

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  5. In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds. This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

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