Steve Chisnell

“He didn't think people changed much—his people anyway. Their souls had been ripped apart trying to stop what could never be stopped, and they took a fierce pride in opening old wounds just to show they could endure them again.”
― Phillip Arrington, The Serpent's Sage

“Evil?" Womble rarely used the word in his work. It was a storybook word. Neither right nor wrong. A word made up to fill a gap in how to talk about the world when it tilted on its side spilling out more blood and pain than people could stand.”
― Phillip Arrington, The Serpent's Sage

“I had to decide between being a man who is not entirely a man, and being a dead man. I chose the former.”
― Thando Mgqolozana, A Man Who is Not a Man

“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