47 quotes found
“Get acquainted with your shadow, or find yourself surprised when a crisis emerges.”
“She smiled, and said, Take care that the voice of God and the Devil sound one in the same in the desert. Trust your instincts. You were not put on this earth to be nave, blindly optimistic, or pass...”
“To walk through unknown streets in cities where you are merely learning the language is to force yourself into a new state of hypervigilance. You are a traveler, and hopefully not just a tourist, a...”
“Travel can sometimes push us to lose ourselves and find ourselves at once. The shedding of old prejudices, dead skin, and the opening of ones eyes is far better than what any mainstream news outlet...”
“How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?”
“Indifference is the worst kind of response when love is expressed. Hate is not the antithesis of love; its the nonexistence of feeling, a pervasive apathy. When hate is present, so is love. Its pas...”
“Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them wit...”
“I have been cheated out of being treated like a human being. In my reflection I saw an empty vessel. They had cheated me and I was desperate to make the sharp pain in my head stop.”
“If anyone thinks interracial "anything" is a big deal, they're probably inbred.”
“I wasnt a person after all. I was simply this exotic thing for people to observe and investigate, an alien in any environment I was in.”
“Thats what imperialism is all about, shoving your language, religion, culture, and race down others throats and telling them that theyre beneath you and its not unique to the West either.”
“Someone can tell you all your life that youre inferior, but it doesnt matter until you accept it and allow for validation. Once validation takes place, its then that the colonial malaise sets in li...”
“Home. This was my mantra, my four-letter savior.”
“Fine art is the discipline of breaking rules.”
“Ramadis sky was generously filled with stars. Celestial ornaments set against a banner of a deep blue velvet sky. It was a place where hell, death, and heaven were so clear and the closest Ive felt...”
“Whether it’s an Iraqi widow mourning her dead loved ones standing helplessly in the rubble of her former home or a dying soldier in an Iraqi city street asking, “Why, God? Why is this happening? Wh...”
“In movies, war only looks romantic. “Tell my gal I love her…” close-up shot, and fade out. It doesn’t work as beautifully and neat in real life. Flying chunks of human flesh and screaming orphans r...”
“When you’re persistently deleted from history, media, and any other channel to access information – or that information is distorted – it’s far worse than physically killing someone. It, instead, i...”
“It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming – a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the iceberg of anti-colonialist backlash.”
“Czechs simply don’t say they’re going camping or spending time outdoors. They say, in Czech, that they are going “into the nature” as though nature, příroda, is beyond a place in the woods or other...”
