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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 80748ed | Lo de greaser no tiene nada que ver con eso. Mi colega, el de alli, quiza no lo hubiera hecho. Quiza tu si. Y quiza un amigo tuyo no. Es algo individual. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 05a310e | Shoot. You got the whole gang. I mean, golly, Johnny, you got the whole gang." "It ain't the same as having your own folks care about you," Johnny said simply. "It just ain't the same." | S.E. Hinton | ||
| a84ed3a | When there is no connection at all between people, then anger is a way of bringing them closer together, of making contact. But when there is a great deal of connectedness that is problematic or threatening or unacknowledged, then anger is a way of keeping people separate, of putting distance between us. | connectedness relationship | Audre Lorde | |
| ddf81e5 | places do not change so much as what we seek in them | Audre Lorde | ||
| 6672982 | Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those differences between us that are separating us. It is rather our refusal to recognize those differences, and to examine the distortions which result from our misnaming them and their effects upon human behavior and expectation. | prejudice | Audre Lorde | |
| a16a3be | When a people share a common oppression, certain kinds of skills and joint defenses are developed. And if you survive you survive because those skills and defenses have worked. When you come into conflict over other existing differences, there is a vulnerability to each other which is desperate and very deep. | Audre Lorde | ||
| eca48eb | When you read the words of Langston Hughes you are reading the words of a Black Gay man. When you read the words of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Angelina Weld Grimke, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, you are reading the words of Black Lesbians. When you listen to the life-affirming voices of Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey, you are hearing Black Lesbian women. When you see the plays and read the words of Lorraine Hansberry, you are reading the words .. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 5aa755d | These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong through that darkness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling. The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 82b557e | Much of the gay white movement seeks to be included in the american dream and is angered when they do not receive the standard white male privileges, misnamed as "american democracy". Often, white gay men are working to change the system. This is one the reasons why the gay male movement is as white as it is. Black gay men recognize, again by the facts of survival, that being Black, they are not going to be included in the same way." | Audre Lorde | ||
| 3808cc6 | my body writes into your flesh the poem you make of me. "Recreation" | Audre Lorde | ||
| 3280533 | There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could beg.. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 483f500 | Recognize the call as a prime fact of human existence; (b) align life with it; (c) find the common sense to realize that accidents, including the heartache and the natural shocks the flesh is heir to, belong to the pattern of the image, are necessary to it, and help fulfill it. A calling may be postponed, avoided, intermittently missed. It may also possess you completely. Whatever; eventually it will out. It makes its claim. The daimon does.. | James Hillman | ||
| 32b1c25 | This is the emancipation of the nigredo from literalism. Like cures like; we cure the nigredo by becoming, as the texts say, blacker than black - archetypally black, and thereby no longer colored by all-too-human prejudices of color. | James Hillman | ||
| e1e84a2 | As the ego does not represent the whole psyche, so the Western mind cannot speak for the whole world. | James Hillman | ||
| c6688dd | Sovegna vos. Here are the years that walk between, bearing Away the fiddles and the flutes, restoring One who moves in the time between sleep and waking, wearing White light folded, sheathed about her, folded. The new years walk, restoring Through a bright cloud of tears, the years, restoring With a new verse the ancient rhyme. Redeem The time. Redeem The unread vision in the higher dream While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| fbfd425 | Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh; | t.s. eliot | ||
| a81430b | Jellicle Cats are black and white Jellicle Cats are rather small Jellicle Cats are merry and bright And pleasant to hear when they caterwaul. Jellicle Cats have cheerful faces, Jellicle Cats have bright black eyes; | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 9fdc60f | Touch me It's so easy to leave me All alone with my memory Of my days in the sun If you touch me | T.S. Eliot Andrew Lloyd Webber Trevor Nunn | ||
| 1dc3de3 | much of what the church calls sin is simply being human. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| e3e55e9 | That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me." | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 5c3bd97 | admy z hyjnt swzn, ngzyr bh tb hy swzn my jhd | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| baf9470 | I would rather be an authority on myself than on Cicero. | Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) | ||
| aeed169 | Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." --Michel de Montaigne, February 28,1533-September 13, 1592" | Cindy Gerard | ||
| cb6f924 | Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 4cb4376 | The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as "temporal exhaustion": "If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future." | Stewart Brand | ||
| 5aa9c94 | Without science, there would be no such hope. | science | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 54ba88e | I think it was that love that I loved. That kind of involvement was reassuring; I felt it would extend to me, as well. That it did not or that it did, but only as much and no more, was confusing at first. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 579f680 | All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving. Good God, she is on that couch when the big one hits. Maidy didn't tell you, but you know what her doctor said? She sprang from the couch and said, "My God, was that an earthquake?" The doctor said this: "Did it feel like an earthquake to you?" | Amy Hempel | ||
| 18cd355 | I like radio personalities, and I like to change lanes. And losing yourself on the freeway is like living at the beach--you're not aware of lapsed time, and suddenly you're there, where it was you were going. | Amy Hempel | ||
| e725e66 | For example, the questions that say, "Would you prefer..." "Would you prefer (a) Answer questions about what you do, (b) Answer questions about what you know, (c) Answer questions about what you think? My answer is "Depends." But it's not one of the choices. I am having to think in terms of Always, Sometimes, Never." | Amy Hempel | ||
| b786ab8 | A famous artist is approached by a student. "You don't remember me," the student says correctly, "but years ago you said something that changed my life. You said, 'Photography is death.' After that," says the student, "I threw out my camera. I began again. I want to thank you for changing my life." "Leave me alone," says the artist. "Photography is life." | Amy Hempel | ||
| 4799fed | I love you,' she said. She nestled closer, her hand moving up the back of his neck. The wind lifted. 'Don't kill me,' he said. 'I'm not going to,' she said. | Max Barry | ||
| 6354815 | Attention words. A single word wasn't enough. Not even for a particular segment. The brain had defenses, filters evolved over millions of years to protect against manipulation. The first was perception, the process of funneling an ocean of sensory input down to a few key data packages worthy of study by the cerebral cortex. When data got by the perception filter, it received attention. And she saw now that it must be like that all the way d.. | Max Barry | ||
| 43f45f5 | Companies were getting a lot tougher on labor contracts these days; Hack had heard stories. At Adidas, if you quit your job and your replacement wasn't as competent, they sued you for lost profits. | Max Barry | ||
| 0cf3d05 | Sales is a business of relationships, and you must cultivate customers with tenderness and love, like cabbages in winter, even if the customer is an egomaniacal asshole you want to hit with a shovel. | Max Barry | ||
| a6c030f | He'd basically fallen in love with her on the spot. Well, no, that wasn't accurate; that implied a binary state, a shifting from not-love to love, remaining static thereafter, and what he'd done with Bronte was fall and fall, increasingly faster the closer they drew, like planets drawn to each other's gravitational force. Doomed, he guessed, the same way. | eliot lexicon love | Max Barry | |
| 64ad084 | There are stories -- legends, really -- of the "steady job." Old-timers gather graduates around the flickering light of a computer monitor and tell stories of how the company used to be, back when a job was for life, not just for the business cycle. ... The graduates snicker. A steady job! They've never heard of such a thing." | jobs unemployment | Max Barry | |
| dd01ecc | There is nothing in back of this cafe. Since the place sits right on the margin between the edge of the world and infinite possibility, he back door opens out to a void. It takes courage to turn the knob and heart to leave the steps. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| 6613f03 | The results of these and other studies were eye-opening. The children who exhibited delayed gratification scored higher on almost every measure of success in life: higher-paying jobs, lower rates of drug addiction, higher test scores, higher educational attainment, better social integration, etc. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 9435e04 | Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. --BILL WATTERSON | Michio Kaku | ||
| 640ab24 | The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. --G. K. Chesterson | Michio Kaku | ||
| 6092cdd | It is remarkable that a gigantic, city-size computer is required to simulate a piece of human tissue that weighs three pounds, fits inside your skull, raises your body temperature by only a few degrees, uses twenty watts of power, and needs only a few hamburgers to keep it going. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 31878ff | Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the convention of reading and the common cognitive disciplines. Indeed, it is this very voluntary cooperation, so unique to comics, that underlies the contract between artist and audience. | Will Eisner | ||
| 2ce48a3 | the Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primaevl solitude would be like talking in church. | sierra-madre-mountains travel west | Jim Fergus |