Ishan

“Your voice is a weapon. Never forget that.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“When I met my husband I did not know what to say about him. He was too new for my secondhand language. I wanted a fresh mouth, capable of pronouncing unprecedented words, and a body unstained by prior touch. Now I have them. My life has been split open, like a cocoon, and I am still waiting to see just what sort of creature crawls out.”
― Becca Rothfeld, All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

“First we must study how colonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism; and we must show that each time a head is cut off or an eye put out in Vietnam and in France they accept the fact, each time a little girl is raped and in France they accept the fact, each time a Madagascan is tortured and in France they accept the fact, civilization acquires another dead weight, a universal regression takes place, a gangrene sets in, a center of infection begins to spread; and that at the end of all these treaties that have been violated, all these lies that have been propagated, all these punitive expeditions that have been tolerated, all these prisoners who have been tied up and interrogated, all these patriots who have been tortured, at the end of all the racial pride that has been encouraged, all the boastfulness that has been displayed, a poison has been instilled into the veins of Europe and, slowly but surely, the continent proceeds toward savagery.”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

“बहुत-से दुखों के बीच से होकर यह साधना धीरे-धीरे आगे बड़ी है। किसी दिन यह नहीं सोचा था कि मैं साहित्यिक हो सकूंगा या किसी दिन मेरी कोई पुस्तक छपेगी।”
― Vishnu Prabhakar, आवारा मसीहा