“Immigration is an attempt to
bloom and blossom
and brighten a new place
with the colors and scents
you've brought with you.
It is an attempt to remember
where you are from, and the place that made you,
and also unfurl to the possibilities
of the new place you call home.”
Source: Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice
“It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing!”
Source: The wind in the willows
“I have returned to the chamber I slept in and found it smaller than I remember. The fields are beautiful, yet not quite as I recalled them. And I am troubled, for I wonder now if I am to be a stranger in my own home.'
Dallben shook his head. 'No, that you shall never be. But it is not Caer Dallben which has grown smaller. You have grown bigger. That is the way of it.”
Source: The Book of Three
“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
“Even if I am in heaven, surrounded by beautiful white gods, white angels, white gardens, white rainbows, and white food—white everything—living in eternal happiness, if I hear that Papuans on this planet called Earth have regained their stolen land and sovereignty, I will leave that heaven immediately, without telling the gods who rule that dimension, and return to my home: Papua.
Even if I am in hell, surrounded by darkness, fire, pain, suffering, death, and monsters—if I hear that my land and my home's sovereignty has been stolen for good and occupied by foreigners, and I am allowed to return, I will never leave that hell.”
Source: WE ARE THE LAST VOICE OF THE FIRST PEOPLES & THE FIRST VOICE OF THE LAST PEOPLES: 63 Sacred Sayings from the Edge of Extinction: Remembering 63 Years of Invasion, Betrayal, and Resistance
“even in paradise
i dream you are
coming love
to resurrect me
to save me from decay
and lead me home”
Source: When Angels Speak of Love
“I'm being kidnapped. I understand this is a catastrophe. I understand what this means. I don't mind that they're beating me. I don't even feel it. Because in these moments, as I'm being led past the kibbutz fence, under the blazing sun, engulfed by the smell of smoldering ruins, a headband strapped over my eyes, dragged by terrorists gripping both my hands, totally aware that I am being abducted into Gaza but knowing at least that Lianne and the girls were left behind, I focus and concentrate on one mission: surviving to return home. There is no more regular Eli. From now on, I am Eli the survivor.”
Source: חטוף
“I like to be at home. What’s the good of a home, if you are never in it?”
Source: The Dairy Of A Nobody
“Home is an elusive and numinous word. What does it mean to find home? There are many ways to describe or circle around this state, but most of all we have to feel into this mysterious internal place we call home. To be home is to feel safe and of one piece. It is to be in the grace of your elemental waters where your being is marked by presencing rather than efforting.80 It is to fall into the rightness and rhythm of being who you are without shame. When we are home, we find our way through deep wild response rather than through unremitting willful effort. To be too far from home for too long is to be constantly exhausted.”
Source: The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression
“Nostalgia (from "nostos" - return home, and "algia" - longing) is a longing for a home that no longer exists or has never existed. Nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement, but it is also a romance with one's own fantasy. Nostalgic love can only survive in a long-distance relationship. A cinematic image of nostalgia is a double exposure, or a superimposition of two images - of home and abroad, past and present, dream and everyday life. The moment we try to force it into a single image, it breaks the frame or burns the surface.”
Source: The Future of Nostalgia