Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin Quotes

“He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power.”

“It was as if hell itself had taken human form and come up from the abyss.”

“We were all pawns easily discarded at the whims of monsters, some of whom were younger than me.”

“VOA no longer felt like a sanctuary but rather a mirage and we were desert wanderers.”

“Inside, I screamed for help but the words knew better than to escape my lips.”

“Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.”

“The original language of Christianity is translation.”

“Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of representation is also a kind of death. For if we are represented by others, might they not, one day, hose our deaths off memory's laminated floor?”

“It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.”

“I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.”