"Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project."

-- Chandra Talpade Mohanty

#Feminist Quotes #Empires Quotes #Used Quotes

“I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. No one dares to cherish What I choose to crave. Never have I hungered, For that I did not have I am a kings daughter, And I grow old within The prison of my person, The shackles of my skin. And I would run away And beg from door to door, Just to see your shadow Once, and never more.”
“We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.”

Source : "Meet the 2012 Tribeca Filmmakers #18: ‘The Flat’ Director Arnon Goldfinger". www.indiewire.com. April 11, 2012.
“To tell my story, to touch lives.”

Source : Emmanuel Jal (2009). “War Child: A Child Soldier's Story”, p.184, Macmillan
“I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.”
“I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn't have recognition. I've met a lot of musicians along the way who thought I was good, and they knew that was important to me. Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.”
“The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation And I did it with honor.”
“There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can't be done ... and the ones who just do it.”
“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.”

Source : Amelia Josephine Burr, “A Song Of LIVIng”

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