I was in a Printing house in Hell & saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
In the first chamber was a Dragon-Man, clearing away the rubbish from a cave’s mouth; within, a number of Dragons were hollowing the cave.
In the second chamber was a Viper folding round the rock & the cave, and others adorning it with gold, silver and precious stones.
In the third chamber was an Eagle with wings and feathers of air: he caused the inside of the cave to be infinite; around were numbers of Eagle-like men, who built palaces in the immense cliffs. In the fourth chamber were Lions of flaming fire, raging around& melting the metals into living fluids.
In the fifth chamber were Unnam’d forms, which cast the metals into the expanse.
There they were receiv’d by Men who occupied the sixth chamber, and took the forms of books & were arranged in libraries.
(William Blake)

I really wanted to read. Though Huck was asleep, I could not chance his waking and discovering me with my face in an open book. Then I thought, How could he know that I was actually reading? I could simply claim to be staring dumbly at the letters and words, wondering what in the world they meant. How could he know? At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.
(Percival Everett)

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
(John 1:1)

“I tell sincere white people, ‘Work in conjunction with us—each of us working among our own kind.’ Let sincere white individuals find all other white people they can who feel as they do—and let them form their own all-white groups, to work trying to convert other white people who are thinking and acting so racist. Let sincere whites go and teach non-violence to white people!”
(Malcolm X)

“Liar, liar, everything’s on fire”
(Dan Bejar)

“This ain’t rock and roll, this is genocide!”
(David Bowie)

“He is strangely attractive because of his enigmatic smile.”
(Edward Monkton)

“You expect improvisation from a German? No, no, that’s—that’s Rocketman’s problem!”
(Thomas Pynchon)

“Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And – how many of us know it? Not Lotze. Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane.”
(Philip K. Dick)

“There now remains one fundamental question. What is the relationship between the struggle, the political or armed conflict, and culture? During the conflict is culture put on hold? Is the national struggle a cultural manifestation? Must we conclude that the liberation struggle, though beneficial for a culture a posteriori, is in itself a negation of culture? In other words, is the liberation struggle a cultural phenomenon?”
(Frantz Fanon)

“It’s the environment; it’s society that is responsible for your mystification.” Once that has been said, the rest will follow of its own accord, and we know what that means. The end of the world, by Jove.”
(Frantz Fanon)

“Le nègre n’est pas. Pas plus que le Blanc.”
(Frantz Fanon)

“He turned and a hysterical terror seized him, as though he were falling from a great height in a dream. A white blur was standing by the door, silent, ghostlike. It filled his eyes and gripped his body. It was Mrs. Dalton.”
(Richard Wright)

“Three hundred years are a long time for millions of folk like us to be held in such subjection, so long a time that perhaps scores of years will have to pass before we shall be able to express what this slavery has done to us, for our personalities are still numb from its long shocks; and, as the numbness leaves our souls, we shall yet have to feel and give utterance to the full pain we shall inherit.”
(Richard Wright)

“Of course, the aggressiveness of liberal imperialism is not that of Nazi Germany, though the distinction may seem rather academic to a Vietnamese peasant who is being gassed or incinerated.”
(Noam Chomsky)

“The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images.”
(Guy Debord)

“But you’re going international
They’re gonna call the cops
Oh no no
You’re turning into
A poor man’s Donald Trump”
(The Flaming Lips)

“The problem is how to integrate madness into the city”
(Francesc Tosquelles)

“Some of his own friends ring Billie’s doorbell, everybody seems to know I’m there, they come up, they are strange anarchistic Negroes and ex cons, it seems to be some sort of gang, I begin to wonder — Like a ring of fevered sages, the Negroes are intense and crazy and intellectual but they’ve all got those strong muscular arms again and all have jail records yet they all talk as tho the end of the world depended on their words…”
(Jack Kerouac)

“Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! Advocate cannibalism! Eat shit! Filth is my politics! Filth is my life!”
(Babs Johnson)

“They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God’s power and believe they are godlike. This is their basic madness.”
(Philip K. Dick)

“It is easier for a needle to pass through a rich man’s eye than for a camel to pass into the kingdom of God.”
(Molly Jeffs)

“In the dark times
Will there be singing?
There will be singing
Of the dark times”
(Bertolt Brecht)

“I am the walrus.”
(John Lennon)

“You are now like a withered leaf; the messengers of death are near you; you are about to set out on a long journey; yet, you have no provisions for the journey.”
(Dhammapada)

“But the reality is that Palestine is now an integral part of the Ottoman Empire and, what is more serious, it is inhabited by people other than Israelites… To achieve a goal like the one that Zionism must propose, other, more formidable blows are needed, those of cannons and battleships.”
(Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi)

“Decolonization never goes unnoticed, for it focuses on and fundamentally alters being, and transforms the spectator crushed to a nonessential state into a privileged actor… Its definition can, if we want to describe it accurately, be summed up in the well-known words: ‘The last shall be first.’”
(Frantz Fanon)

“One, two! One, two! And through and through/The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!”
(Lewis Carroll)

“Sans parler de l’énorme quantité de gaz absorbé et décomposé par la respiration animale et végétale, ne sait-on pas que l’état de culture d’un pays influe essentiellement sur sa température, et que cette température réagit sur l’équilibre atmosphérique ? Que l’on pense encore à l’action mécanique d’une forêt sur le courant d’air qui la traverse… on concevra quelle puissante action doivent exercer sur l’atmosphère le boisement et le déboisement des montagnes…”
(Hippolyte Renaud)

“Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon… for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.”
(1 Kings 5:6)

“It is the mighty hunter I would preach, and the mountainous spirit unconquerable.”
(Kahlil Gibran)

“God gave Noah the rainbow sign
No more water, the fire next time”
(“Mary Don’t You Weep”)

“Was it possible, that at every gathering—concert, peace rally, love-in, be-in, and freak-in, here, up north, back East, wherever—those dark crews had been busy all along, reclaiming the music, the resistance to power, the sexual desire from epic to everyday, all they could sweep up, for the ancient forces of greed and fear? ‘Gee,’ he said to himself out loud, ‘I dunno…’”
(Thomas Pynchon)

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”
(Galatians 3:28)