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.

Another quote →

More quotes by Billy-Ray Belcourt

All Billy-Ray Belcourt quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Billy-Ray Belcourt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.