"I'm mostly surprised by the fact he's still alive; given that people have been trying to silence him for almost fifty years, he really shouldn't be. Aged thirty, Abdellatif [LaÃ¢bi's ] was kidnapped from his home in Rabat by plainclothes policemen, bundled into the back of an unmarked car, driven to a dingy gaol, and tortured for days on end."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Andre Naffis-Sahely

#Home Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.”
“Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.”
“Mostly though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.”
“I like people wanting to know about me.”
“Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.”
“Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.”
“I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“I'm a draftsperson. And also, I really respond to love.”

Source : "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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