“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?”
― Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
― Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
“in the end
it is words
poetry. sunsets
someone’s deep blue
silk voice.
mountain scents.
someone’s smile.
eyes. that we have
no defenses against.”
―
it is words
poetry. sunsets
someone’s deep blue
silk voice.
mountain scents.
someone’s smile.
eyes. that we have
no defenses against.”
―
“The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing the orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.”
― Orientalism
― Orientalism
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