Steve Chisnell

“A statement on the political responsibility of the critic: the critic must attempt to fully realize, and take responsibility for, the unspoken, unrepresented pasts that haunt the historical present.”
― Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture

“The future can never be larger than the past," she said to his disappearing back. "What will happen can never escape what has.”
― Phillip Arrington, The Serpent's Sage

“There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.”
― Patrice Nganang, Mount Pleasant

“Moments recalled like friends. It was that way or another.
We’re fairly certain either way. Stories. They are with us.
Time doesn’t forsake. It doesn’t soothe or decrease. Never.”
― Simon J. Ortiz, Out There Somewhere (Volume 49)