“What’s coming is reality. Politics has nothing to do with reality!”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 14 (p. 269)
“Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”
— James Baldwin, book The Fire Next Time
Source: The Fire Next Time
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