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| c2b1214 | Faggot" was a word I had employed all my life. And now here they were, The Cabal, The Coven, The Others, The Monsters, The Outsiders, The Faggots, The Dykes, dressed in all their human clothes. I am black, and have been plundered and have lost my body. But perhaps I too had the capacity for plunder, maybe I would take another human's body to confirm myself in a community. Perhaps I already had. Hate gives identity. The nigger, the fag, the .. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 3ac4e78 | Through The Mecca I saw that we were, in our own segregated body politic, cosmopolitans. The black diaspora was not just our own world but, in so many ways, the Western world itself. Now, the heirs of those Virginia planters could never directly acknowledge this legacy or reckon with its power. And so that beauty that Malcolm pledged us to protect, black beauty, was never celebrated in movies, in television, or in the textbooks I'd seen as.. | racism history howard-university malcolm-x blacks whites race-relations | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| bda7a6c | In such revisions of history lay the roots of the noble Lost Cause--the belief that the South didn't lose, so much as it was simply overwhelmed by superior numbers; that General Robert E. Lee was a contemporary King Arthur; that slavery, to be sure a benevolent institution, was never central to the South's true designs. Historical lies aside, the Lost Cause presented to the North an attractive compromise. Having preserved the Union and save.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| c667f96 | They knew our names and they knew our parents. But they did not know us, because not knowing was essential to their power. To sell a child right from under his mother, you must know that mother only in the thinnest way possible. To strip a man down, condemn him to be beaten, flayed alive, then anointed with salt water, you cannot feel him the way you feel your own. You cannot see yourself in him, lest your hand be stayed, and your hand must.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 4db9edf | The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of this country's criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was imposed by a repressive minority. The abuses that have followed from these policies--the sprawling carceral state, the random detention of black people, the torture of suspects--are the product of democratic will. And so to challenge the police is to challenge the Ameri.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| a0c5518 | She had wanted her son to stand for what he believed and to be respectful. And he had died for believing his friends had a right to play their music loud, to be American teenagers. | prejudice | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 9bcd85a | I have raised you to respect every human being as singular. And you must extend that same respect into the past. Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman whose mind is as active as your own, whose range of feelings as vast as your own, who prefers the way the light falls in one particular spot in the woods, who enjoys fishing where the water eddys in the nearby stream, who loves her mother in .. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 033f7da | As for now, it must be said that the process of washing the disparate tribes white, the elevation of the belief in being white, was not achieved through wine tastings and ice cream socials, but rather through the pillaging of life, liberty, labor, and land; through the flaying of backs; the chaining of limbs; the strangling of dissidents; the destruction of families; the rape of mothers; the sale of children; and various other acts meant, f.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 0eaac11 | Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains--whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains. You must struggle to truly remember this past in all its nuance, error, and humanity. You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters .. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 835f775 | That was the week you learned that the killers of Michael Brown would go free. The men who had left his body in the street like some awesome declaration of their inviolable power would never be punished. It was not my expectation that anyone would ever be punished. But you were young and still believed. You stayed up till 11 P.M. that night, waiting for the announcement of an indictment, and when instead it was announced that there was none.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 08050fc | By the time I visited those battlefields, I knew that they had been retrofitted as the staging ground for a great deception, and this was my only security, because they could no longer insult me by lying to me. I knew--and the most important thing I knew was that, somewhere deep with them, they knew too. I like to think that knowing might have kept me from endangering you, that having understood and acknowledged the anger, I could control i.. | struggle racism life blacks whites race-relations | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 02738a5 | One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness--the black gangster, the black rioter--that strikes the ultimate terror in white America. Perhaps it does, in the most individual sense. But in the collective sense, what this country really fears is black respectability, Good Negro Government. It applauds, even celebrates, Good Negro Government in the unthreatening abstract--The Cosby Show, for instance. B.. | racism american-myths birtherism black-respectability good-negro-government race-relations race | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 81a869a | I know now that all people hunger for a noble, unsullied past, that as sure as the black nationalist dreams of a sublime Africa before the white man's corruption, so did Thomas Jefferson dream of an idyllic Britain before the Normans, so do all of us dream of some other time when things were so simple. I know now that that hunger is a retreat from the knotty present into myth and that what ultimately awaits those who retreat into fairy tale.. | fairy-tales cultural-myths maga make-america-great-again pound-cake-speech revisionist-history myths | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 79757d5 | the people who could author the mechanized death of our ghettos, the mass rape of private prisons, then engineer their own forgetting, must inevitably plunder much more. This is not a belief in prophecy but in the seductiveness of cheap gasoline. Once, the Dream's parameters were caged by technology and by the limits of horsepower and wind. But the Dreamers have improved themselves, and the damming of seas for voltage, the extraction of coa.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 8f676b8 | I don't ever want to lose sight of how short my time is here. And I don't ever want to forget that resistance must be its own reward, since resistance, at least within the life span of the resistors, almost always fails. I don't ever want to forget, even with whatever personal victories I achieve, even in the victories we achieve as a people or a nation, that the larger story of America and the world probably does not end well. Our story is.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 7cbabba | But there is always one last chance--right? | R.L. Stine | ||
| 77031eb | La misma dinamica del capitalismo nubla la frontera entre inversion 'legitima' y especulacion 'salvaje' porque la inversion capitalista es, en su misma esencia, una apuesta de riesgo(...), un acto consistente en tomar prestado del futuro"." | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| cc7c480 | En el mercado actual, encontramos toda una serie de productos libres de sus propiedades perjudiciales: cafe sin cafeina, nata sin grasa, cerveza sin alcohol... Y la lista es larga: ?no podriamos considerar el sexo virtual como sexo sin sexo, la teoria de Colin Powell de la guerra sin bajas (en nuestro bando, por supuesto) como guerra sin guerra, la redefinicion contemporanea de la politica como el arte de la administracion experta como poli.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| dcbf13f | 'wl drs yjb t`lmh hw `dm lwm l'frd wmwqfhm, lmshkl@ lyst fsd lfrd wjsh`h, wlkn lnZm ldhy yshj`h `l~ lfsd. lHl lys sh`r "fy lshwr` lry'ysy@ wlys wwl stryt", wlkn fy tGyyr lnZm ldhy yj`l lshwr` lry'ysy@ m`tmd@ `l~ wwl stryt." | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| b2adec7 | This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those excluded from its protective cover. Any reference to universal human rights as an 'unfinished project' to be gradually extended to all people is here a vain ideological chimera - and, faced with this prospect, do we, in the West, have any right to condemn the excluded when they use any means, inclu.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 780dcae | as in Heinrich Heine's (a contemporary of Kierkegaard's) well-known saying that one should value above everything else 'freedom, equality and crab soup'. 'Crab soup' stands here for all the small pleasures in the absence of which we become (mental, if not real) terrorists, | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| c24fd3b | Democracy in contemporary society is a fake, predicated on an illusion that we are together making choices about how best to manage ourselves, an illusion that functions to obscure the fact that we vote for different individuals to exercise power in a state apparatus that is still dedicated to the efficient management of the capitalist economy. The imperatives of capitalism must always undermine democratic decision-making, and the term 'dic.. | Ian Parker | ||
| 11f3c26 | As every close observer of the deadlocks arising from the political correctness knows, the separation of legal justice from moral Goodness -which should be relativized and historicized- ends up in an oppressive moralism brimming with resentment. Without any "organic" social substance grounding the standards of what Orwell approvingly called "common decency" (all such standards having been dismissed as subordinating individual freedoms to pr.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 4a2fc23 | ndm ykwn lmr DHy@ l'y nw` mn lt`sf, ymknh 'n yf`l 'Hd 'mryn. ymknh t`lm kyfy@ tHwyl l'lm l~ Gy@ wHdth frq fy l`lm 'w ymknh lsmH lh bkhmd lnwr fy dkhlh. n khtr l'mr l'khyr, ykwn qd DHW~ b'kthr mn Tfwlth lalh@ lsh`by@ lqs@. | Jodee Blanco | ||
| f87b6d9 | Education is as much about learning what you don't know as it is about adding to what you do. | David McRaney | ||
| 427b144 | Failing often is the only way to ever get the things you want out of life. | David McRaney | ||
| cfc8106 | THE MISCONCEPTION: Your fight-or-flight instincts kick in and you panic when disaster strikes. THE TRUTH: You often become abnormally calm and pretend everything is normal in a crisis. | David McRaney | ||
| d759570 | You are a story you tell yourself. | David McRaney | ||
| 50c4e95 | Self-esteem is mostly self-delusion, but it serves a purpose. You are biologically driven to think highly of yourself in order to avoid stagnation. If you were to stop and truly examine your faults and failures, you would become paralyzed by fear and doubt. | David McRaney | ||
| 19fb06a | THE MISCONCEPTION: When you can't explain something, you focus on what you can prove. THE TRUTH: When you are unsure of something, you are more likely to accept strange explanations. | David McRaney | ||
| 603781f | It is the result of thinking, not the process if thinking, that occurs spontaneously in consciousness. | David McRaney | ||
| fbaa18f | If you neglect your personal space and allow chaos and clutter to creep in, it will affect you, and perhaps encourage further neglect. Positive feedback loops should improve your life, not detract from it. You can't prime yourself directly, but you can create environments conducive to the mental states you wish to achieve. | David McRaney | ||
| c5e83cb | In 2008, Lawrence Williams and John Bargh conducted a study where they had people meet strangers. One group held a cup of warm coffee, and the other group held iced coffee. Later, when asked to rate the stranger's personality, the people who held the warm coffee said they found the stranger to be nice, generous, and caring. The other group said the same person was difficult, standoffish, hard to talk to. In another round of research subject.. | David McRaney | ||
| 8f40649 | THE MISCONCEPTION: The larger the consensus, the more likely it is correct. THE TRUTH: A belief is not more likely to be accurate just because many people share it. | David McRaney | ||
| 9394d84 | A terrorist for Karen is someone who has a bomb but no aeroplane. Ch. 4 | John le Carré | ||
| 7bfefd1 | Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old. | hayao-miyazaki japan film | Helen McCarthy | |
| 44b9082 | It was the skinny boy's stillness, he decided later. Those lines of age in a face as young as mine. His look of winter on a lovely spring day. | John le Carré | ||
| c09d14e | Never confess, my friend," he advised drowsily, clasping Melik's hand. "If you confess, they will keep you there forever." | John le Carré | ||
| 2c9e851 | The driver was holding open the rear door. He was young and blond, a boy in his prime. | John le Carré | ||
| 84d1a1a | Todd and Larry were Quinn's people. They were clean-limbed and pretty and, for a man of my age, ludicrously youthful. | John le Carré | ||
| ea8a612 | There was a pause. Mendel said: 'It's the devil you don't know that gets you. | John le Carré | ||
| 901fd53 | Her instinct was to defend, to hoard the treasures of her life, to build about herself the symbols of normal existence. | John le Carré | ||
| 766dd00 | Information is not knowledge, mind you. | John le Carré | ||
| e855c6d | It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey. | conventionalism status-quo | John le Carré |