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Alex Peek
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“Say you promise to be at your desk in the evenings, from seven to nine. It waits, it watches. If you are reliably there, it begins to show itself-- soon it begins to arrive when you do.”
― A Poetry Handbook
― A Poetry Handbook
“...true decolonization was not just a political project, but also one rooted in self-actualization through self-expression.”
― The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power
― The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power
“Tomorrow the One Who Has No Name, he mused, might become He Who Has No Identity, and then He Who Has No Body, and then He Who Can't Be Caught and Thrown in Jail.”
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
“A thousand sons must have been where he was now and turned back from their horses, wagons, rickshaws, cyclos, buses, schooners, trains, even dusty sandaled feet.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
“Each day the enforcers pushed me into a sustained rage laced with contempt; and each day the Seducer manipulated my anger and loneliness, pushed me further into experiencing intelligence as a sexualized mark of Cain and artistic ambition as a sexualized delinquency.”
― Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women
― Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women
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