Michelle

“Did you win? he asks.
It wasn't a match, I say. It was a lesson.”
― Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

“some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“Stories are not mere flights of fantasy or instruments of political power and control. They link us to our past, provide us with critical insight into the present and enable us to envision our lives not just as they are but as they should be or might become. Imaginative knowledge is not something you have today and discard tomorrow. It is a way of perceiving the world and relating to it.”
― Azar Nafisi, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

“So what the media do, in effect, is to take the set of assumptions which express the basic ideas of the propaganda system, whether about the Cold War or the economic system or the “national interest” and so on, and then present a range of debate within that framework—so the debate only enhances the strength of the assumptions, ingraining them in people’s minds as the entire possible spectrum of opinion that there is.”
― Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky