Alive
I only live in that moment where the words come out of my mouth. I am a poet even before I am human. I owe her for this - a muslim woman from myspace: Neelofer Mir
"When one says the word 'Africa,' one generally abdicates all responsibility. The concept of wrongdoing is evacuated on principle. It is presupposed as well that nonsense is constitutive, from the beginning, of the word itself. In other words, to say 'Africa' always consists in constructing figures and legend - it matters little which ones - on top of an emptiness". (Achille Mbembe, in: Critique of Black Reason, Chapter 2, The Well of Fantasies, page 51-52