M.B. Dallocchio

Quotes

• “A woman in combat? Yes. Since when? Since Native American warrior Buffalo Calf Road Woman knocked that prick General Geo...”
• “To walk through unknown streets in cities where you are merely learning the language is to force yourself into a new sta...”
• “When you’re persistently deleted from history, media, and any other channel to access information – or that information ...”
• “In movies, war only looks romantic. “Tell my gal I love her…” close-up shot, and fade out. It doesn’t work as beautifull...”
• “Czechs simply don’t say they’re going camping or spending time outdoors. They say, in Czech, that they are going “into t...”
• “Veterans being sent into unjust wars for corporate profit is a perversion of trust, at best. I found the emotional manip...”
• “With even the slightest upset, detachment soon followed. I didn’t lose sleep over men, and I was too restless to be tied...”
• “There are people who come home from war and want to talk about the pain, but no one wants to listen; there are others wh...”
• “Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence...”
• “She smiled, and said, “Take care that the voice of God and the Devil sound one in the same in the desert. Trust your ins...”
• “A moving target is harder to kill, and I didn't stop running, maneuvering, until I reached home base, where I could brea...”
• “Ramadi’s sky was generously filled with stars. Celestial ornaments set against a banner of a deep blue velvet sky. It wa...”
• “Travel can sometimes push us to lose ourselves and find ourselves at once. The shedding of old prejudices, dead skin, an...”
• “Someone can tell you all your life that you’re inferior, but it doesn’t matter until you accept it and allow for validat...”
• “Everyone around me was allowed, permitted to fall apart; yet I had to think twice. I couldn't bear to take another dip i...”
• “That’s what imperialism is all about, shoving your language, religion, culture, and race down others’ throats and tellin...”
• “I have been cheated out of being treated like a human being. In my reflection I saw an empty vessel. They had cheated me...”
• “How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-pro...”
• “It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming – a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the...”
• “The open road. Seemingly my only friend for years upon end since leaving war. The road embraced me, let me breathe, and ...”
• “A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and...”
• “To stay alive, you have to keep moving. Running, relocating, driving, doing everything in your power to stay in motion a...”
• “I wasn’t a person after all. I was simply this exotic thing for people to observe and investigate, an alien in any envir...”
• “It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it hap...”
• “I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.”
• “Home.” This was my mantra, my four-letter savior.”
• “Fine art is the discipline of breaking rules.”