Arundhati Roy on feeling
Arundhati Roy73 quotes“I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.”
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Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government’s policies, that are so hated.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy When people say “the people” or “the public” as though it’s the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever.
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