June 2013
March 2013
“A man who does not know where the rain began to beat him cannot say where he dried his body.”
—Igbo proverb
“Preemptive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.”
—Otto von Bismarck
“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
—Emma Goldman
December 2012
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Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of the dominant groups.
In this volume, by placing African-American women’s ideas in the center of analysis, I not only privilege those ideas but encourage white feminist, African-American men, and all others to investigate the similarities and differences among their own standpoints and those of African-American women.
” —Patrica Hill Collins—Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment , page xiii (via sugahwaatah)
Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of the dominant groups.
(via damnlayoffthebleach)
“There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.”
—Homer, The Iliad
November 2012
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
—Bill Cosby
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
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(via crashinglybeautiful)
October 2012
“The trickster comes to life in the complex terrain of polytheism. His function in an archaic society or rather the function of his mythology, of the tales told about him, is to add disorder to order and so make a whole, to render possible, within the fixed bounds of what is permitted, an experience of what is not permitted.”
—Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World (via metaconscious)
“I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don’t really exist if you don’t.”
—Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via likesomethingblooming)
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acephalist
n. one who acknowledges no superior
“In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.” — Bertrand Russell
“Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity”
—Jean-Jacques Rosseau (via philosophy-quotes)
“When did my youth slip away from me? I suddenly thought. It was over, wasn’t it? Seemed just like yesterday I was still only half grown up.”
—Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart (via murakamistuff)
“Democracy and capitalism are quite compatible as long as voters have poor information. If you put the Internet in the mix and allow it to evolve, sooner or later voters will have better information and the republic will collapse.”
—Scott Adams (via azspot)
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
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Marcus Aurelius
September 2012
The Hobbit - Over The Misty Mountains Cold
Blind Guardian
Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold,
To Dungeons Deep and Caverns Old,
The Pines were Roaring on The Heights,
The Winds were Moaning in the Night,
The Fire was Red, it Flaming Spread,
The Trees Like Torches Blazed with Light.The Hobbit - “Misty Mountains”
