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01Undated

Get acquainted with your shadow, or find yourself surprised when a crisis emerges.

M.B. Dallocchio / quote

02Undated

Indifference is the worst kind of response when love is expressed. Hate is not the antithesis of love; it’s the nonexistence of feeling, a pervasive apathy. When hate is present, so is love. It’s passion gone sour and fueled by pain, but, nonetheless, it’s passion and love is apparently still alive. Yet when indifference seeps into our spirits, an emotional numbness and permitted scotoma takes the place of any passion – whether it’s love or hate – and resigns in a new state of being.

M.B. Dallocchio / quote

03Undated

Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard.

M.B. Dallocchio / quote

04Undated

I have been cheated out of being treated like a human being. In my reflection I saw an empty vessel. They had cheated me and I was desperate to make the sharp pain in my head stop.

M.B. Dallocchio / quote

05Undated

Home.” This was my mantra, my four-letter savior.

M.B. Dallocchio / quote

06Undated

Ramadi’s sky was generously filled with stars. Celestial ornaments set against a banner of a deep blue velvet sky. It was a place where hell, death, and heaven were so clear and the closest I’ve felt to all three in my life.

M.B. Dallocchio / quote

07Undated

If anyone thinks interracial "anything" is a big deal, they're probably inbred.

M.B. Dallocchio / quote

08Undated

I wasn’t a person after all. I was simply this exotic thing for people to observe and investigate, an alien in any environment I was in.

M.B. Dallocchio / quote

09Undated

That’s what imperialism is all about, shoving your language, religion, culture, and race down others’ throats and telling them that they’re beneath you – and it’s not unique to the West either.

M.B. Dallocchio / quote

10Undated

Someone can tell you all your life that you’re inferior, but it doesn’t matter until you accept it and allow for validation. Once validation takes place, it’s then that the colonial malaise sets in like smallpox.

M.B. Dallocchio / quote

11Undated

Fine art is the discipline of breaking rules.

M.B. Dallocchio / quote