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We are the hero of our own story. ↗


— Mary McCarthy


#our #own #story

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part. ↗


— Jeffrey Wright


#everyone #examined #eyes #forged #great

And once upon a time I wondered: Is writing epic fantasy not somehow a betrayal? Did I not somehow do a disservice to my own reality by paying so much attention to the power fantasies of disenchanted white men? But. Epic fantasy is not merely what Tolkien made it. This genre is rooted in the epic — and the truth is that there are plenty of epics out there which feature people like me. Sundiata’s badass mother. Dihya, warrior queen of the Amazighs. The Rain Queens. The Mino Warriors. Hatshepsut’s reign. Everything Harriet Tubman ever did. And more, so much more, just within the African components of my heritage. I haven’t even begun to explore the non-African stuff. So given all these myths, all these examinations of the possible… how can I not imagine more? How can I not envision an epic set somewhere other than medieval England, about someone other than an awkward white boy? How can I not use every building-block of my history and heritage and imagination when I make shit up? And how dare I disrespect that history, profane all my ancestors’ suffering and struggles, by giving up the freedom to imagine that they’ve won for me. ↗


— N.K. Jemisin


#history #tolkien #writing-while-black #freedom

Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them. ↗


— Ron Wyden


#car #cell #cell phone #company #departments

I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with. ↗


— Bill Wyman


#i #limits #live #musical #restrictions

My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore. ↗


— Roberta Williams


#definition #explore #game #interactive #obstacles

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. ↗


— William Butler Yeats


#begins #book #come #do not judge #ends

It's so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television. ↗


— Jacob Young


#away #goes #leave #many #reading

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly. ↗


— Walter Jon Williams


#big #certainly #drawn #end #history

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history. ↗


— Viktor Yushchenko


#embedded #history #nation #our #pages






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