Bryce Galloway

“For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them. The so-called artistic representation of the sheer physical pain of people beaten to the ground by rifle-butts contains, however remotely, the power of elicit enjoyment out of it. The moral of this art, not to forget for a single instant, slithers into the abyss of its opposite. The aesthetic principle of stylization, and even the solemn prayer of the chorus, make an unthinkable fate appear to have had some meaning; it is transfigured, something of its horror is removed..." Theodor Adorno, 'Commitment' republished in 'Aesthetics & Politics', Verso 1977”
― Adorno Theodor W.

“Clothes do not interest her. They hang on her body as if they are there only because there is no place else for them to go, like men on street corners, like children on the school playground on weekends.”
― bell hooks, Bone Black

“Don Letts: "...the DIY thing, using what you've got to get what you need, turning your problems into your assets.
...I'd go as far a to say that this over-analysing of the late 70s incarnation of punk belittles a much bigger idea - and that is that it's an ongoing dynamic that is the birthright of all young people.”
― Celeste Bell, Zoe Howe