This is a backwards world which compensates its spoilers instead of punishing them. Against this backdrop thousands are in jail for things like the use of marijuana or the stealing of chickens…It’s a backwards world, a world of shit. But it’s not the only one possible. There is another. This world of shit is pregnant with another, and it is the young people who will bring it forward.

Intellectuals bust my balls…when they call me a ‘distinguished intellectual’ I yell, ‘No! I’m not an intellectual!’ Intellectuals divorce their heads from their bodies. I don’t want to be a head rolling along the road, I am a person. A head, a body , a sex, a belly. Be careful with those who only reason. We must reason and feel. When reason divorces itself from the heart I’d invite you to tremble with fear, because those characters can drive us to the end of human existence on the planet. I believe in that difficult and contradictory fusion—that is difficult but necessary—between what we feel and what we think.” [emphasis added]

-Eduardo Galeano

Uruguayan writer