Trinh T. Minh-ha quotes
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“you and I are close, we intertwine; you may stand on the other side of the hill once in awhile, but you may also be me while remaining what you are and what I am not.”
-- Trinh T. Minh-haSource : Trinh T. Minh-Ha (2009). “Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism”, p.90, Indiana University Press
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“Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.”
-- Trinh T. Minh-haSource : Trinh T. Minh-Ha (2009). “Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism”, p.52, Indiana University Press
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“despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.”
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“Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional”
-- Trinh T. Minh-haSource : Trinh T. Minh-ha (2014). “When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics”, p.193, Routledge
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“It Went By Me something very beautiful just went by me something not to tell in words in feelings so fragile so wild something yet to tell is no longer why and when it left i can't tell.”
-- Trinh T. Minh-ha
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