Brittni

“In Berlin, it seems, in the end everything becomes either art and/or memorial”
― Peter Schneider, Berlin Now: The City After the Wall

“You might one day be offered the opportunity to display symbols of loyalty. Make sure that such symbols include your fellow citizens rather than exclude them. Even the history of lapel pins is far from innocent. In Nazi Germany in 1933, people wore lapel pins that said "Yes" during the elections and referendum that confirmed the one-party state. In Austria in 1938, people who had not previously been Nazis began to wear swastika pins. What might seem like a gesture of pride can be a source of exclusion. In the Europe of the 1930s and '40s, some people chose to wear swastikas, and then others had to wear yellow stars.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.”
― Kathy Acker, In Memoriam to Identity

“Apparently there isn't a profession in Berlin for which you can't get famous.”
― Peter Schneider, Berlin Now: The City After the Wall