Charlize Theron In Atomic Blonde (2017)

Colonialism is not a machine capable of thinking, a body endowed with reason. It is naked violence and only gives in when confronted with greater violence.

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Folding fan with the finding of Romulus and Remus

Italian, mid-18th century

gouache and bronze paint on paper with carved and pierced tortoiseshell, metal leaf, and mother-of-pearl veneer

Metropolitan Museum of Art

“Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.”

— Blaise Pascal

Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon by Claude Lorrain

“The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.”

— Friedrich Engels, Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith

Kill Bill (2003)

ANNE PARILLAUD as Nikita in La Femme Nikita (1990) (dir. Luc Besson)

Mr. Trask, it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world. Don't ask me - even if you could - how I know that. I just know it. It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. And that's the way Cal has always felt, Mr. Trask. All his life! Maybe you didn't mean it that way - but it's true. You never gave him your love. You never asked for his. You never asked him for one thing.

EAST OF EDEN (1955) dir. Elia Kazan

Lady Vengeance (2005)