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“We know ourselves as part and as crowd, in an unknown that does not terrify. We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone.”
― Poetics of Relation
― Poetics of Relation
“At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen.”
― How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
― How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
“Generalization is totalitarian . . . . Either the other is assimilated, or else it is annihilated. That is the whole principle of generaliza-tion and its entire process.”
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“Every condition exists,” Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, “simply because someone profits by its existence. This economic exploitation is crystallized in the slum.” Exploitation. Now, there’s a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control (to possess it).”
― Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays
― Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays
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