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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 41f2120 | Oh, glory," I said with a groan, "this is all I need to top off a perfect night" I took one last drag on my weed and ground the stub under my heel" | S.E. Hinton | ||
| e18c40f | pg.1- "I have light brown, almost red hair and greenish-grey eyes. I wish they were more grey, because I hate most guys that have green eyes, but I have to be content with what I have." pg ?- "Can you see the sunset real good from the west side?" She blinked, startled, then smiled. "Real good." "You can see it from the east side, too," I said quietly. | socs the-outsiders | S.E Hinton | |
| 7821b82 | DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem. | free inspirational big judgmental judging real afro-hair natural | Audre Lorde | |
| c8fd56c | The breakdown of mummies and daddies was an important part of lesbian relationships in the Bagatelle...For some of us, however, role-playing reflected all the depreciating attitudes toward women which we loathed in straight society. It was the rejection of these roles that had drawn us to 'the life' in the first place. Instinctively, without particular theory or political position or dialectic, we recognized oppression as oppression, no mat.. | stereotypes homosexuality gender | Audre Lorde | |
| 715d91d | each one of us is here because somebody before us did something to make it possible. | Audre Lorde | ||
| bb31f8f | Raising Black children -- female and male -- in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive. | racism self-protection sexism | Audre Lorde | |
| e52251a | When ideologies that defend racism and heterosexism become taken-for-granted and appear to be natural and inevitable, they become hegemonic. Few question them and the social hierarchies they defend. Racism and heterosexism both share a common cognitive framework that uses binary thinking to produce hegemonic ideologies. Such thinking relies on oppositional categories. It views race through two oppositional categories of Whites and Blacks, g.. | Patricia Hill Collins | ||
| e814e4f | The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. | feminism strength difference patriarchy failure | Audre Lorde | |
| f9e2fef | Black women who define ourselves and our goals beyond the sphere of a sexual relationship can bring to any endeavor the realized focus of completed and therefore empowered individuals. | Audre Lorde | ||
| ac5ef34 | The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us -- the poet -- whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free. Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary demand, the implementation of that freedom. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 0927cdd | When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 0082382 | There is a distinction I am beginning to make in my living between pain and suffering. Pain is an event, an experience that must be recognized, named and then used in some way in order for the experience to change, to be transformed into something else, strength or knowledge or action. Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain. When I live through pain without recognizing it self-consci.. | racism pain suffering | Audre Lorde | |
| 228e8e7 | We have the power those who came before us have given us, to move beyond the place where they were standing. We have the trees, and water, and sun, and our children. Malcolm X does not live in the dry texts of his words as we read them; he lives in the energy we generate and use to move along the visions we share with him. We are making the future as well as bonding to survive the enormous pressures of the present, and that is what it means.. | feminism malcolm-x race | Audre Lorde | |
| 5a4615e | There is no Black person here who can afford to wait to be led into positive action for survival. Each one of us must look clearly and closely at the genuine particulars (conditions) of his or her life and decide where action and energy is needed and where it can be effective. Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose. For while we wait for another Malcolm, anothe.. | Audre Lorde | ||
| ce1a524 | What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? | Audre Lorde | ||
| 8bf8c24 | The possession of such a big brain was no doubt an asset to these 'intelligent, spiritually sensitive, resourceful creatures'8 and the fossil record suggests that they were the dominant species on the planet from about 100,000 years ago until 40,000 years ago. | Graham Hancock | ||
| f8a2f99 | No, the problem at Gobekli Tepe is the pristine, sudden appearance, like Athena springing full-grown and fully armed from the brow of Zeus, of what appears to be an already seasoned civilization so accomplished that it "invents" both agriculture and monumental architecture at the apparent moment of its birth." | Graham Hancock | ||
| 0c282fd | a team of Japanese engineers had recently tried to build a 35-feet-high replica of the Great Pyramid (rather smaller than the original, which was 481 feet 5 inches in height). The team started off by limiting itself strictly to techniques proved by archaeology to have been in use during the Fourth Dynasty. However, construction of the replica under these limitations turned out to be impossible and, in due course, modern earth-moving, quarry.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| e1d7b99 | She didn't really know London, only lived in it. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 8529558 | It seems, as one becomes older, / That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence," wrote T. S. Eliot. Four Quartets, which meditates on time, age, and memory, goes on to say, "We had the experience but missed the meaning, / And approach to the meaning restores the experience / In a different form, beyond any meaning." | James Hillman | ||
| 24eec69 | L.P. J.H. No, not at all! It fights the unconsciousness, the blindness, that all myth creates about itself. You never can see the actual myth you are in or only through a glass darkly. | myth religion glass-darkly | James Hillman | |
| 9655e8c | Why do I prefer insurance to the invisible guarantees of existence? | James Hillman | ||
| e26c4ff | The deepest subjectivity is not personal. | James Hillman | ||
| 50c0a54 | The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| d0f2ead | High in the hazy sky, the snowfkakes looked tiny and all alike, but as they drifted past the narrow window of the sewing room, all were unique - long or round or triangular - as if they'd borrowed their shapes from the clouds they'd come from. | life-in-small-german-town rise-of-nazis | Ursula Hegi | |
| 900f916 | Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. The trend might be coming from the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the distractions of personal multitasking. All are on the increase. Some sort of balancing corrective to the short-sightedness is needed--some mechanism or myth that encourages the long view and the .. | Stewart Brand | ||
| bd60c5a | Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first. I say that information doesn't deserve to be free. Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and info.. | information internet technology | Jaron Lanier | |
| 749c8fb | Everything looks like a failure in the middle." Any" | Stewart Brand | ||
| 4861f85 | hnk Tryqh wHd@ fqT ymknk n tn'~ bh mn lsqwT fy hdh@ lhw@, why drk m`tqdtk lrskhh wqymk l`myqh wlltzm bh ltzm kly .n lm ysbq lk ltrwy wmsl@ nfsk `n mnb` sh`wrk bl'hmyh ( y l`tzz blnfs wlqymh ldhtyh ) `lyk bltmhl lan lbD` dqy'q lljbh `l~ hdh lsw'l .. dwny l'shy lty tj`lk nti .. 'nti . m smtk lkhSh ? mhy m`tqdtk lrskhh ? m qymk lSlyh ? | Donna Dale Carnegie | ||
| 451d712 | stm`t wshrkt wrqbt 'thr alf lmjdlt , wkhlSt l~ n hnk ntyjh wHd@ fqT lksb ljdl why n ttjnbyh klyh . tjnbyh mthlm ttjnbyn lth`byn wlzlzl ". "l ymknk ksb jdl , wHt~ n ksbtyh , fswf tkhsryn . lmdh ? l'nk Ht~ n Hmlt shkhS `l~ rf` ryh lstslm lbyD fn hdh l y`ny nk qd Gyrt wjhh nZr@. wnm swf tkwnyn fqT qd njHt fy nhkh l~ lHd ldhy j`lh `jz `n mwSlh lHdyth. jdly wwSly jdlk wswf ttrskh Hqyqtn l thlth lhm fy nfs khSmk whm nk mkhTy'h wbGyDh . nh nSr 'jw.. | Donna Dale Carnegie | ||
| b8558c7 | The greatest risks are never the ones you can see and measure, but the ones you can't see and therefore can never measure. The ones that seem so far outside the boundary of normal probability that you can't imagine they could happen in your lifetime--even though, of course, they do happen, more often than you care to realize. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 1f174a5 | Economic development is not a zero-sum game; the world does not need poor countries in order to have rich countries, nor must some people be poor in order for others to be rich. Families who live in public housing on the South Side of Chicago are not poor because Bill Gates lives in a big house. They are poor despite the fact that Bill Gates lives in a big house. For a complex array of reasons, America's poor have not shared in the producti.. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 464d45a | The real cost of something is what you must give up in order to get it, which is almost always more than just cash. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 5833631 | HOW TO GRIND YOUR DEADLIFT Mentally prepare for a steady, relentless effort, as opposed to having a speed mindset. Pre-tense. Pressurize. Squeeze the bar off the floor, don't jerk. "Lift the barbell powerfully-steady, applying a maximal effort along the whole lift." (Smolov) Aim for a constant, low, acceleration towards the lockout. There is more than one way to pull big." -- | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| 181afd1 | of eighteen kittens reared in the company of rodents, only three became rodent-killers later on. The other fifteen could not be trained to kill later by seeing other cats killing. For them the rodents had become 'family' and were no longer 'prey'. Even the three killers would not attack rodents of the same species as the one with which they were reared. | Desmond Morris | ||
| 621b541 | The psychic said I would have two children. This makes me shake my head. I know you are not supposed to leave a baby alone. Not even for a minute. But after a while I think, What could happen to a baby in the time it would take for me to run to the corner for a cappuccino on the go? So I do it, I run to the corner and get the cappuccino. And then I think how close the store is that is having the sale on leather gloves. Really, I think, it i.. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 6d55b73 | Automatic is what I can manage. Isn't there enough to pay attention to OUTSIDE the car? All I want inside a car is music. When a favorite old song comes on the radio, I can never hear it past the first few notes. The song, evocative, will take me to the place and time where I first came to hear it. I'll be taken over for the length of the song, and returned when it stops, having missed it, only knowing it was there because now it ISN'T ther.. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 7e5e183 | When she sees him, Holly says, it's like the sunsets at the beach--once the sun drops, the sand chills quickly. Then it's like a lot of times that were good ten minutes ago and don't count now. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 89ee452 | It is such a pretty story, told to me by a Cuban woman I met in a bar at the beach. She left the bar before I did; a drunken man took her place. He leaned into me and said, "I see in your dark eyes that you have suffered, and you have compassion, and I have suffered, and I have compassion, and I see in your eyes that I can say things to you--" "My eyes are blue," I said." -- | Amy Hempel | ||
| 920fa6e | The women advised long walks. They told the wife to watch the sun rise and set, to look for solace in the natural world, though they admitted there was no comfort to be found in the world and they would all be fools to expect it. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 9acd64c | The neighborhood drug dealer kicks out his wife. He moves in a girlfriend and the wife finds out. The wife lets herself back into the house and steals a hundred thousand dollars that the drug dealer can't report missing. The drug dealer's wife goes to India, where she sends her husband a cable: "The people here are poor so I gave them all your money." | Amy Hempel | ||
| 8718ef7 | I was sitting with the rest of my college graduating class listening to the commencement speaker prepare us for life after graduation, and he had a lot of ground to cover because my liberal arts education had skirted the issue for 4 years. I was just waiting for them to call my name so I could go up, collect my diploma, fold it into a paper hat, and start flipping burgers at McDonalds. | Doug Lansky | ||
| 52f704b | S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with blood from head to toe. Lee was lying on the floor, quietly pumping out his life through his throat. | murder knives | Max Barry | |
| 269de9e | Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best were not facts or arguments but words that tickled people's brains for some reason, that just amused them. Puns, and exaggerations, and things that were true and not at the same time. | words persuade hustling persuasion | Max Barry |