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last updated: November 28, 2023

I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.
-- Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
-- Roland Barthes

Source : "A Lover's Discourse (Talking)". Bok by Roland Barthes, 1977.

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“The IMPP work was already very important. The recent AOL action might reinforce public perception that a standard is needed, but I think the public already realized this.”
“But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.”
“The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.”
“Andrea Leadsom flatly denies she has changed her CV.”
“I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue”
“We have our classic hood movies, right? Like "Boyz in the Hood." We have our classic conscious films like Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," or "Stand By Me." Even beyond Coogler, there are black films that are just voices. So the intention behind this ["The Land"] was to capture today's.”
“I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.”
“When you look at the Justice Department's report talking about the Ferguson Police Department's rampant pattern of discrimination and its excessive use of force against African-American citizens, it's hard to try to rationalize how this cesspool of racism doesn't spill over onto the individual officers.”

Source : "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): A Conversation with Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump". Interview with Gil Robertson, mobile.eurweb.com. March 24, 2015.
“In any system, there will be change happening without you.”
“Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.”