This is not the same thing as “adjusting” to reality: the effort of “adjusting” to reality simply has the paradoxical effect of destroying reality, since it substitutes for one’s own speech and one’s own voice an interiorized public cacophony of quotations.”

— James Baldwin

I use the term radical in its original meaning—getting down to and understanding the root cause. It means facing a system that does not lend itself to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.”
— Ella Baker, 1969

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Engineering!