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Tout Homme est tiraillé entre le besoin de l’Arbre et de la Pirogue. Cette idée vient d’un mythe mélanésien. L’Arbre, c’est l’enracinement, l’identité. La Pirogue, c’est le voyage, l’arrachement à soi. On erre ainsi constamment entre ces deux besoins, cédant tantôt à l’un, tantôt à l’autre, jusqu’au jour où l’on comprend que c’est avec un Arbre que
... See moreUlysse Lubin • 1000 Jours en quête de sens: Une odyssée moderne (French Edition)
Empire as a “way of life” in the islands remains visible yet nearly unspeakable even today, manifesting itself as the most “militouristic” zone of the United States.35
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
We cannot understand modern forms of racism if we cannot or will not explore patterns of group behavior and their effects on individuals.
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
“Alowine,” he said. “Is this what we need? The country that gave birth to Voltaire and Racine and Molière, the country that gave Louisiana to the Americans. And what do they give us in return? Alowine.”
Peter Mayle • Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Vintage Departures)
founded on ideas of progress that are complicit with neo-liberal forms of governance,
Homi K. Bhabha • The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics)
For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
“Poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions . . . It makes us the inhabitants of a world to which the familiar is in chaos. It reproduces the common universe of which we are portions and percipients, and it purges from our inward sight the film of familiarity which obscures from us the wonder
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