"I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect. I wanted to show readers that the larger politics of war and economics and U.S. foreign policy are inextricably bound to the supposedly trivial details of our everyday lives."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Annia Ciezadlo

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“There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist â€” Then he was a Man and a Positivist.”

Source : Mortimer Collins, F. Percy Cotton (1886). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins”
“Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.”
“I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.”
“There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.”
“My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.'”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 25, 2011.
“It's always difficult to tell someone when they're still in love with someone that I think they're going in the wrong way.”
“I won't be fining players for getting sent off.”
“If we remain wedded to the way education is currently provided we cannot imagine other ways. We need some imagination, some fantasy, some new ways of thinking - some magic in fact.”

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