25 Quotes About Erasure

Assertion, even self-assertion, does not invariably bespeak an urge to annihilate the opposition or to wield coercive power.

In order to not feel alone, we conform our selves to masks and hide in social solitude. We ignore the inner geniuses and envy the others.

In the meantime, a massive and frightening bleakness inside me kept expanding and rattling. Sometimes I wrote about it in my diary, sensing that if I didn’t somehow fill the hollowness, it would swallow my heart and spit out my core. Other times I wished for the emptiness to scrape me off, a permanent erasure.I was terrified that I was supposed to be living and I wasn’t, that I must have some prospect and I didn’t.

a bright starhaunts me,as I fell in lovewith the sunsetson a breezy rooftop

1947, a found poem,full of erasures in historyof India and Pakistan.

One only has to read interviews with outstanding women to hear them apologizing

The Legion of White Decency was the Northerners’ version of the Ku Klux Klan, you see. They marched in the same white sheets, they burned the same crosses … Most of the history books talk more about the KKK than they do about the Legion of White Decency, and a lot of people don’t even know there was such a thing. I think it might be because most of the histories have been written by Northerners and they’re ashamed.

You are correct in your observation that words in common use that are not written down would necessarily be excluded. Your concern that some types of words, or words used by some types of people, will be lost to the future is really quite perceptive.

Memory had a habit of erasing, leaving only the most necessary.