“How do you inscribe difference without bursting into a series of euphoric narcissistic accounts of yourself and your own kind? Without indulging in a marketable romanticism or in a naive whining about your condition?… How do you forget without annihilating? Between the twin chasms of navel gazing and navel erasing, the ground is narrow and slippery and none of us can pride ourselves on being sure-footed here.”

∆ Trinh T. Minh-ha, Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989), 28.