Jessica Zu

“If you're lucky, you realize early on that each decision you make answers a question that all of us muddle through: how to build meaning in our lives. Meaning is not something you stumble across or what someone gives you; you build it through every choice you make, the commitments you choose, the people you love, and the values you hold dear.”
― Maria Ressa, How to Stand Up to a Dictator

“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.”
― Daniel Immerwahr, 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.”
― Édouard Glissant

“To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control (to possess it).”
― Édouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays