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Never does one open the discussion by coming right to the heart of the matter. For the heart of the matter is always somewhere else than where it is supposed to be.

— Trinh T. Minh-ha Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989)

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Myths circulate like gifts without givers, and no myth teller (cares to) knows where they come from or who invented them.

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Knowledge belongs to the one who succeeds in mastering a language.

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Time and space are not something entirely exterior to oneself, something that one has, keeps, saves, wastes, or loses.

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Questions are always loaded with the questioner’s prejudices.

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Writing as an inconsequential process of sameness/otherness is ceaselessly re-breaking and re-weaving patterns of ready-mades. The written bears the written to infinity.

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