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Nation of Strangers Quotes
Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
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Nation of Strangers Quotes
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“Who am I kidding?
I should drop this act of "nothing is about me". I am writng to you also because I need a home. And, as disarming as it may be, my only chance to build it is with words and to do it with you. Let me go further. I need to be able to tell you who I am now. I need to find out how to speak of the self without the fear of appearing as the proud of victim of the glorious survivor.... [...] After being unhomed, a stranger learns that home is not a question of what she remembers but who remembers her. I need you to remember me. I need you to hear me so that I too am audible to myself. I need to know not necessarily where I will go next but with whom.”
― Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
I should drop this act of "nothing is about me". I am writng to you also because I need a home. And, as disarming as it may be, my only chance to build it is with words and to do it with you. Let me go further. I need to be able to tell you who I am now. I need to find out how to speak of the self without the fear of appearing as the proud of victim of the glorious survivor.... [...] After being unhomed, a stranger learns that home is not a question of what she remembers but who remembers her. I need you to remember me. I need you to hear me so that I too am audible to myself. I need to know not necessarily where I will go next but with whom.”
― Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
