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Billy-Ray Belcourt Quotes

Canada

Billy-Ray Belcourt is a poet, scholar, and author from the Driftpile Cree Nation.

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Poets pledge allegiance to a country I don't believe in.

The fundamental violence of colonialism, then, is perhaps the inculcated sense, a sensation that bubbles up most acutely by way of the physiological, that your body is not yours to keep, that it is never solely yours to maintain sovereign control over.

To Be Unbodied (2019)

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