Karen Tei Yamashita Quotes

#1. Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.
'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.

Karen Tei Yamashita

#2. No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

Karen Tei Yamashita

#3. Everyone's got a version of the same story, or maybe there's no such thing as the same story; it's a different story every time.

Karen Tei Yamashita

#4. Time could heal, but it wouldn't make wrongs go away. Time came back like a reminder. Time folded with memory. In a moment, everything could fold itself up, and time stand still.

Karen Tei Yamashita

#5. Just cuz you get to the end doesn't mean you know what happened.

Karen Tei Yamashita

#6. The myth of the first world is that
development is wealth and technology progress.
It is all rubbish.
It means that you are no longer human beings
but only labor.
It means that the land you live on is not earth
but only property.

Karen Tei Yamashita