“In the nineteen years since then, I had learned eleven languages and 713 songs. I had found ways to conceal what I waseven, I was fairly sure, from the Lord of the Radch herself. I had worked as a ...”

“Ships have feelings.”

“If thats what youre willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you love?”

“Do you still think Mianaai controls the Radchaai through brainwashing or threats of execution? Those are there, they exist, yes, but most Radchaai, like people most places I have been, do what they...”

“The single word that directs a persons fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact with is of course a common subject of entertainments and moralizing stories, but if everyone were ...”

“Good necessitates evil.”

“But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work.”

“The world should not pass judgement upon the Negro, and especially the Negro youth, too quickly or too harshly. The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements and temptations to battle with that are ...”

“With few exceptions, the Negro youth must work harder and must perform his tasks even better than a with youth in order to secure recognition. But out of the hard and unusual struggle through which...”

“Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned...Everything is war. Me say war.That until the're no longer 1st class and...”

“When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back”

“And Charles turned around and called back without thinking, 'You know, you're awfully lucky you boys are white.'He didn't know why he said it. It had broken out of him. He'd wanted to speak with lo...”

“You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.”

“Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.”

“Look, girls. It is important to all of us that we win this game, right? Well, when it comes to athletics, boys are simply better suited than girls. Its a fact of nature that no one can change. Im s...”