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“Dalk voel jy veiliger in die agterkamers van museums? Ek is die vismot se voeler in elke argief. Ek het toegang tot elke bladsy. Ek vreet soos ek lees.”
― Willem Anker, Buys: 'n grensroman

“n Owerheid verstaan kaarte, nie grond nie.”
― Willem Anker, Buys: 'n grensroman

“And what the right wing and conservative forces fear, is true: rights are rights are rights. When you do start to fight for the equality of LGBT people, it will at some point lead to calls for marriage equality, and that’s terrifying, even if marriage equality is not what activists are asking for today in, say, Nigeria or Russia. They are simply asking to live in peace and not be killed, to have the same basic protections as everyone else.”
― Mark Gevisser, The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers

“A poll taken at the time showed that 31 percent of Polish men under thirty-nine saw “LGBT” and “gender ideology” to be the greatest threat to their country, more than Russia or the climate crisis.”
― Mark Gevisser, The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
― Hannah Arendt

“The boy worried the sky.”
― Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

“Ek sou Japan toe kon gaan, maar wie het nodig om Oosterse tempels op te soek as die hele Vrystaat met sy oseaan van gras ’n tempel is? As mens jou hier kan oplos in die stilte?”
― SJ Naudé, Van vaders en vlugtelinge

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
― Susan Sontag