As our elder Lao Tzu used to say, knowing ignorance is strength, ignoring knowledge is sickness; if one is sick of sickness, then one is no longer si… - Trinh T. Minh-ha

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As our elder Lao Tzu used to say, knowing ignorance is strength, ignoring knowledge is sickness; if one is sick of sickness, then one is no longer sick. For a variation, I would say knowledge for knowledge’s sake is sickness. Let her who is sick with sickness pass on the story, a gift unasked for like a huge bag of moonlight. Now stars shine white on a black on a colored sky.

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About Trinh T. Minh-ha

(born 1952 in ; Vietnamese: Trịnh Thị Minh Hà) is a Vietnamese , writer, , composer, and professor. She has been making films for over thirty years and may be best known for her films Reassemblage, made in 1982, and Surname Viet Given Name Nam, made in 1985. She has received several awards and grants, including the 's National Independent Filmmaker , and Fellowships from the , the and the . Her films have been the subject of twenty retrospectives.

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Alternative Names: Trinh Thi Minh-Ha Thi Minh-Ha Thi Minh-Ha Trinh Trinh T. Minh-Ha T. Minh-Ha Trinh Trịnh Thị Minh Hà Trinh T. Minh Ha

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Language also reveals its power through an insignificant slip of the pen, for no matter how one tries to subject it to control and reduce it to “pure” instrumentality, it always succeeds in giving an inkling of its irreducible governing status.

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Language is one of the most complex forms of subjugation, being at the same time the locus of power and unconscious servility. With each sign that gives language its shape lies a stereotype of which I/i am both the manipulator and the manipulated.

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