“One should always be drunk, that’s all there is to it, it’s the only way. Not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks you back and bends you to the earth. You should continually be drunk. Drunk with what? With passion. With anger, with outrage, or with justice, as you please, but get drunk. And if sometimes, you should happen to awake, on the stairs of a palace, on the grass of a ditch, in the dreary solitude of your room, and find that your drunkenness is aping, or has vanished, ask the wind, and the wave ask the star, bird or clock, ask anything that flies, everything that moans everything that flows, everything that sings, everything that speaks. Ask them the time, and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, and the clock will all reply it is time to get drunk. If you’re not prepared to be the modern slaves of time, be perpetually drunk. With passion, with anger, with outrage or with justice. As you please.”

as presented by a slyvia tamale at the AWID Forum in 2005