Trinh T. Minh-ha Quotes

• you and I are close, we intertwine; you may stand on the other side of the hill once in awhile, but you may also be me while remaining what you are and what I am not.

  Trinh T. Minh-ha

  May, Sides, Hills

  Trinh T. Minh-Ha (2009). “Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism”, p.90, Indiana University Press

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• despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

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  Desperate, Leaks, Categories

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• It Went By Me something very beautiful just went by me something not to tell in words in feelings so fragile so wild something yet to tell is no longer why and when it left i can't tell.

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  Beautiful, Feelings, I Can

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• Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.

  Trinh T. Minh-ha

  Communication, Writing, Understanding

  Trinh T. Minh-Ha (2009). “Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism”, p.52, Indiana University Press

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• Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional

  Trinh T. Minh-ha

  Home, World, Secular

  Trinh T. Minh-ha (2014). “When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics”, p.193, Routledge

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