Reimagining Quotes

“Could it possible for humans to breath under water? A fetus in its mother's womb is certainly alive in an aquatic environment. During the greatest holocaust the world has ever known, pregnant America-bound African slaves were thrown overboard by the thousands during labor for being sick and disruptive cargo. Is it possible that they could have given birth at sea to babies that never needed air. Are Drexians water-breathing, aquatically-mutated descendants of those unfortunate victims of human greed? Have they been spared by god to teach us or terrorize us? Their stories took one of the most gruesome details of the Atlantic slave trade and reframed it. The murder of enslaved women was reimagined as an escape from murderous oppression and the founding of a utopia civilization.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

“AMBITION. DESIRE. BETRAYAL. MURDER?”
― L.R. Dorn

“But the truth of Asian ascendancy or Western decline is not central to the argument of this book; instead, this book shows that importance of how people reimagine the global order through their desires to assert a superior masculinity and reconfigure hierarchies of race and nation.”
― Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work

“Perhaps we think we can destroy the places of our past by returning: by reimagining, rebuilding. A utopia is, after all, a thing that rises from disaster, ruin, rubble. Without all that failure there can be no such thing as a utopia, since there would be no other reality to compare it to.”
― Laura van den Berg, State of Paradise

“Some systems are broken. Others were never meant to serve us at all. The work isn’t repair—it’s reimagining.”
― Lawrence Nault

“It’s called due diligence,” explained God.
“Truly? You? Due diligence?”
“Sure. Why not me? If you were planning to smite a town, would you not wish to dot the i's and cross the t's?”
― Moshe Sipper, Sodom: A Modern Biblical Tale

“Moving on,” said Goshen. “Number two: do not make idols.”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, stop worshipping your phones and your technology as if they’re the be-all and end-all of existence.”
― Moshe Sipper, Plagues: A Modern Biblical Tale

“David rubbed his chin. “Hmm… A thematic park. Interesting.”
Solomon smiled. “Thematic sounds a bit too uppity. I’m thinking it’s simply a theme park.”
― Moshe Sipper, David: A Modern Biblical Tale

“So David prevailed over Gath Philistine’s elephant’s foot’s stone with a sling.”
― Moshe Sipper, David: A Modern Biblical Tale