Two Quotations
When the oppressors came to us, they came with their tool, which was, they were defining everything for us. They had to define our culture as being savage. They defined everything that we did as backward. They defined our source of healing as witchcraft, you understand, meaning what they had, they had the power to define.
-- by Makhi, from the trailer to the movie Masizakhe (let us build together) It is a fact of technology that it is easier to fly to the moon than to reconstruct a broken egg. Something organic has been destroyed. Something new must be built.
-- Organic, by Elite Terrorist from the album 'Mission Control Presents: Prehistoric Sounds'.
Hey - thanks for quoting Makhi from our film "Masizakhe: Let Us Build Together" - I just have a couple changes for his actual quote:
ReplyDelete"When the oppressors came to us, they came with their tool, which was, they were defining everything for us. They had to define our culture as being (Savage). They defined everything that we did as (Backward). They defined our source of healing as witchcraft, you understand, meaning what they had, they had the power to define.
Hope you are enjoying ICS - I graduated from there is 1995.
Peace,
Scott Macklin
Thanks Scott, I made the corrections. Hopefully I'll be done with my thesis in a week! :)
ReplyDeleteThe song is called "Organic" and was written by Elite Terrorist, the song can be found on the album 'Mission Control Presents: Prehistoric Sounds.
ReplyDeleteAs to the source of that particular quote, I don't know where it came from...
Thanks for the info Jeff.
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