Stef Rozitis

“In turning away from each other, entities withdraw care for each other. Thus the earth is not dying. But the earth may be turning away from certain forms of existence. In this way of thinking the Desert is not that in which life does not exist, A Desert is where a series of entities have withdrawn care for the kinds of entities humans are and this has made humans into another form of existence: bone, mummy, ash, soil.”
― Elizabeth Povinelli

“contemporary states make live, let die, and kill”
― Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism

“Being a mother is the hardest thing I've ever done, but loving my child is the easiest thing I've ever done.”
― Randi Latzman, From the Heart of a Mother: Poetry and Words of Inspiration for All Stages of Motherhood

“We cannot rely on one occupation to free us from another, or one tyrant to free us from another. We fought with the British against the Ottomans, and they betrayed us and promised to give our land to the Jews. Haven’t we learned our lesson? Freedom will not come to us through an external power. We have to earn it ourselves.”
― Samah Sabawi, Cactus Pear For My Beloved: A Family Story from Gaza