Manifesto Quotes

“Twitter is the perfect platform for the permanently outraged who want to express opinions through short statements without having to engage in proper arguments or defend positions.”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

“If we accept that we cannot change other people, or that we cannot change how we ourselves might be contributing to an unhealthy dynamic, then surely the solution is to make a bid for freedom?”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

“U godinama nakon toga shvatit ću da osoba koja ima kontrolu u vezi ovisi o slabom partneru, a ipak ta tobožnja slaba osoba procvate kad otiđe, dok je ona, navodno jača, manje sposobna sama se iznijeti. Ako snagu crpiš podčinjavanjem druge osobe, onda si ti slab i ovisan.”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

“Any attempts to essentialist culture into notions of authenticity only succeed in doing the opposite and revealing the interconnectedness of our societies.”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

“I see now that my feminism as a young woman was paper thin. I was possessed of the fervor of a born-again and had learned the rhetoric, but not yet examined myself enough to live by and through my values.”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

“The moment my father arrived in Britain as a young man, he was brutally stripped of his self-image as an individual and had to assume an imposed identity - as the visual embodiment of centuries of negative misrepresentations.”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

“Alle pogingen om cultuur terug te brengen tot opvattingen over authenticiteit kunnen alleen het omgekeerde bewerkstelligen en de onderlinge verbondenheid van onze culturen openbaren.”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up