Hortense Spillers Quotes on Politics
Hortense J. This page collects quotes attributed to Hortense Spillers on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Hortense Spillers:
“Before the body is a political subject, the body is the captive flesh of an American grammar.”
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Attributed to Hortense Spillers:
“The Middle Passage was the disciplining of bodies into a category of property.”
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Attributed to Hortense Spillers:
“Race is not a noun in the American sentence; it is a tense and a voice.”
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Attributed to Hortense Spillers:
“The Black woman is the figure on which the gendered grammar of the West breaks down.”
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Attributed to Hortense Spillers:
“We are still in search of the words for what slavery did to the language.”