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“Once chipping away at empire commenced, it became unthinkable to not see politicos, of now or centuries past, for exactly what they were: soulless, bloated, necrophagan creatures glutting on decay of their own assembly.”
― Sfarda L. Gül, Non Serviam

“Because I’m empty without rage. I don’t know how else to live.”
― Sfarda L. Gül, Non Serviam

“[She] said ‘blood does not wash off’ and she was right. Blood does not forget, either. Blood congealed and crusted and stained evermore. Blood knew what it was like to be free.”
― Sfarda L. Gül, Non Omnis Moriar

“You said I killed you-haunt me, then! [...] Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“I etch my own face upon my wicked flesh.
I am my own devastating god.”
― Rachel McKibbens, Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism

“Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci

“What I am interested in doing now is suggesting how the general liberal consensus that “true” knowledge is fundamentally nonpolitical (and conversely, that overtly political knowledge is not “true” knowledge) obscures the highly if obscurely organized political circumstances obtaining when knowledge is produced. No one is helped in understanding this today when the adjective “political” is used as a label to discredit any work for daring to violate the protocol of pretended suprapolitical objectivity.”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism

“Not only were the young Turks unaware of their past, but the Turkish Government was “buying history” at American universities by giving them large endowments to keep its barbaric past from the American university agenda—a past filled with such atrocities that it had inspired Hitler. “Who remembers the Armenians?” Hitler had asked to justify his slaughter of the Jews and other designated enemies of the state. Indeed. And who even knew the Pontic Greeks ever existed?”
― Thea Halo, Not Even My Name: A True Story

“I’ll hold my word to one of the men’s heads, and he’ll tremble as I press against his temple and say,
Say it.
Say it.
Say my name without spitting.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

“If you plug your ears
from the Soviet anthem,
it sounds like an SS march.”
― Sfarda L. Gül, Earth Hagiography

“…because i much prefer my violence senseless.”
― Daniel Barzilay, A Casket Full of Poems

“... the Orientalist attitude in general [is profoundly anti-empirical]. It shares with magic and with mythology the self-containing, self-reinforcing character of a closed system, in which objects are what they are because they are what they are, for once, for all time, for ontological reasons that no empirical material can either dislodge or alter.”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism