To narrate is to give oneself

It seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked. 

So long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

-Eduardo Galeano, 1978

from Days And Nights of Love and War

(1983)