Just as in you are what you eat, it is even more precise to say you are what you say, what you read, and what you write.

I hope, wherever we are, we start to decolonize knowledge production through rekindling that deep and strong spark between the heart and the mind; through understanding that the path to objectivity goes through the painful corridors of subjectivity.

With that question, the two of us had a long conversation about whether language is a tool in our hands or we in its hands.

Language is a double-edged sword that can imprison or set us free.

How and why many of us blindly repeat words, idioms, and phrases passed down to us like shabby clothes from our parents or ancestors, without even pondering the exact meaning of what we say.