‘Technology and media pretend to provide a world that is internetted — all they deliver is a world of shadows.’ #anamcara#abookofcelticwisdom#johnodonohue
‘A terrorised society will behave like an unthinking, submissive mob for a long time. Feeding it is enough to make it obey. Provided with amusements, it’s happy. The rather small arsenal of tricks has not changed in millennia.’ #theshahofshahs#ryszardkapuściński#crevicemoments
#ghassankanafani#therevolutionof19361939inPalestine
‘The revolution — in its essence and its substance [and] its local leadership — was a peasant revolt.’ ‘At no point in the entire history of the Palestinian struggle was the armed popular revolution as close to victory as it was…from the end of 1937 to the beginning of 1938.’
And I’ve been living here, quietly, beside you, for years, just waiting for…the high sign.’ #whentheemperorwasdivine#julieotsuka#japaneseinternment
‘I’m the slant-eyed sniper in the trees. I’m the saboteur in the shrubs. I’m the stranger at the gate. I’m the traitor in your own backyard. I’m your houseboy. I’m your cook. I’m your gardener.
‘Common challenges: to consistently justify its opposition to social integration and to explain, in an infinitesimally precise manner, the process of turning Judaism into a state and a nation.’ #kanafani#onzionistliterature#literarycriticism
‘Zamzam walked back through a town that was beginning to bloom as a new capital in an independent state. Immigrants pouring in, the families and tribes of those who had borne the rages of this war, who had paid the prices for victory.’ #riverspirit#leilaaboulela
in an independent state. Immigrants pouring in, the families and tribes of those who had borne the rages of this war, who had paid the prices for victory.’ 2/2 #riverspirit#leilaaboulela#sudan#eyesonsudan#grovepress#riverspirit#leilaaboulela#sudan#eyesonsudan