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“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.”
― Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion

“The right of self-determination of the peoples includes the right to a state of their own. However, the foundation of a state does not increase the freedom of a people. The system of the United Nations that is based on nation-states has remained inefficient. Meanwhile, nation-states have become serious obstacles for any social development. Democratic confederalism is the contrasting paradigm of the oppressed people. Democratic confederalism is a non-state social paradigm. It is not controlled by a state. At the same time, democratic confederalism is the cultural organizational blueprint of a democratic nation. Democratic confederalism is based on grassroots participation. Its decision-making processes lie with the communities. Higher levels only serve the coordination and implementation of the will of the communities that send their delegates to the general assemblies. For limited space of time they are both mouthpiece and executive institution. However, the basic power of decision rests with the local grassroots institutions.”
― Abdullah Öcalan, Democratic Confederalism

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”
― Bob Marley

“Everything I'm not makes me everything I am”
― Kanye West

“For me giving up is way harder than trying.”
― Kanye West

“Having money isn't everything, not having it is.”
― Kanye West

“Success is the best revenge.”
― Kanye West

“homie I'm graduated”
― Kanye West

“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.”
― Huey P. Newton

“Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.”
― Huey P. Newton

“Music is my religion.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“I am still learning.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

“Raise your words, not your voice, it's rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Jalal al-Din Rumi

“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen King

“Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]”
― Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
― Mark Twain

“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”
― Chief Joseph

“There were Italian neighbourhood and Vietnamese neighbourhoods in this city; there are Chinese ones and Ukrainian ones and Pakistani ones and Korean ones and African ones. Name a region on the planet and there's someone from there, here. All of them sit on Ojibway land, but hardly any of them know it or care because that genealogy is wilfully untraceable except in the name of the city itself. They'd only have to look, though, but it could be that what they know hurts them already, and what if they found out something even more damaging? These are people who are used to the earth beneath them shifting, and they all want it to stop-and if that means they must pretend to know nothing, well, that's the sacrifice they make.”
― Dionne Brand, What We All Long For

“It seemed to me that everybody ended up in Toronto at least for a little while.”
― Alice Munro, Dear Life

“I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.”
― Barack Obama