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“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
“...so long as you stay in orbit you will be OK, you will not feel crestfallen, not once. You might miss home, you might feel exhausted, you might feel like you're an animal in a cage, you might get lonely, but you will never, never be crestfallen”
― Orbital
― Orbital
“...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
“Not content with being Pope Joan, you must be Caesar and Alexander as well.”
― Saint Joan
― Saint Joan
“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
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