“The process is still bitterly remembered by Navajos.” – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, ‘An Indigenous People’s History of the United States”

“The Fascist racketeers were no fools. They understood the psychology of their starving victims. Their appeal to them was irresistible.” – Angelo Herndon

“Our vices and our degradation are ever arrayed against us, but our Virtues are passed by unnoticed. From the press and the pulpit with have suffered…” – Editorial Board of ‘Freedom’s Journal,’ 1827

“While some nations vow never to forget, our American battle has always been over what we allow ourselves to remember” – Wesley Lowery, in ‘Four Hundred Souls’

“The hunger to unlearn what so many of us have been taught is pronounced” – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, ‘An Indigenous People’s History of the United States”

“I’m gonna miss the way you violate the English language” – Joshua Marie Wilkinson, ‘Trouble Finds You’

“Any private thrill was like peeing your pants. Dylan knew to be ashamed of the relief.” – Jonathan Letham, ‘The Fortress of Solitude’

“It’s Midwinter Day today a day / To cause the sun to stand still as it will anyway” – Bernadette Mayer, ‘Midwinter Day’

“The ideas / only words direct. // Out dying between / the moment & / saying it:” – Mathias Svalina, “The Wine-Dark Sea”

“New York is a Tourettic city, and this great communal scratching and counting and tearing is a definite symptom” – Jonathan Lethem, ‘Motherless Brooklyn’