Marco Bell

“The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions”
― rassool jibraeel snyman

“The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.”
― Joseph Conrad