Intrepidsafaris Quotes & Sayings

May you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back — Lucille Clifton

...even Michael, who never stopped trying to want what we wanted for him. How could he? We're not individuals. We're haunted by the living as well as the dead. — Adam Haslett

The intellectual project of decolonizing has to set out ways to proceed through a colonizing world. It needs a radical compassion that reaches out, that seeks collaboration, and that is open to possibilities that can only be imagined as other things fall into place. Decolonizing Methodologies is not a method for revolution in a political sense but provokes some revolutionary thinking about the roles that knowledge, knowledge production, knowledge hierarchies and knowledge institutions play in decolonization and social transformation. — Zed Books

People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up. — Mary Steenburgen

Dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality. — Muriel Rukeyser

You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions. — Bryan Brown

Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity. — Shirley Temple

Holy things and holy places, out of mind under the cauterizing brilliance of the summer son, reared up now as the winter sun struck from the south, casting shadows coldly upon the avenues where the people followed and went in, wearing winter hearts on their sleeves for the plucking. — William Gaddis

He realized that the East would forever be trailing the West as long as it produced scientists who could only copy others. — Anonymous