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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b12d07c | Audre Lorde | |||
| c05d0bb | The terror of Black Lesbians is buried in that deep inner place where we have been taught to fear all difference--to kill or ignore it. Be assured: loving women is not a communicable disease. You don't catch it like the common cold. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 2aa3fe5 | He pondered that a little while and then he asked, do Black people have to pay for their doctors, too? Because that's what TV programs had said. I smiled a little at this and told him it's not only Black people who have to pay for doctors and medical care; all people in America have to. Ah, he said. And suppose you don't have the money to pay? Well, I said, if you don't have the money to pay, sometimes you died. And there was no mistaking m.. | united-states | Audre Lorde | |
| 22edbaf | There are no new pains. | silencing speaking-out the-master-s-tools | Audre Lorde | |
| 87e95be | In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my mortality, and of what I wished and wanted for my life, however short it might be, priorities and omissions became strongly etched in a merciless light and what I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid? To question or to speak as I believed could have meant pain, or death. But we are all hurt in so many different ways, all the time, and pain will either change or end... | Audre Lorde | ||
| 10c47e1 | Traditionally, in american society, it is the members of oppressed, objectified groups who are expected to stretch out and bridge the gap between the actualities of our lives and the consciousness of our oppressor. For in order to survive, those of us for whom oppression is as american as apple pie have always had to be watchers, to become familiar with the language and manners of the oppressor, even sometimes adopting them for some illusio.. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 03c1d6d | THE QUALITY OF LIGHT by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 7d89c2f | The distortion of relationship which says "I disagree with you, so I must destroy you" leaves us as Black people with basically uncreative victories, defeated in any common struggle. This jugular vein psychology is based on the fallacy that your assertion or affirmation of self is an attack upon my self--or that my defining myself will somehow prevent or retard your self-definition." | Audre Lorde | ||
| f13894d | The peoples of the Soviet Union, in many respects, impress me as people who can not yet afford to be honest. When they can be they will either blossom into a marvel or sink into decay. What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope. I think that in America there are certain kinds of problems and in Russia there are certain kinds of problems, but basically, when you .. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 6d48cc2 | However, experience has taught us that action in the now is also necessary, always. Our children cannot dream unless they live, they cannot live unless they are nourished, and who else will feed them the real food without which their dreams will be no different from ours? 'If you want us to change the world someday, we at least have to live long enough to grow up!' shouts the child. | social-justice | Audre Lorde | |
| c5a56cb | I sit before the typewriter and nothing comes. If feels as if underlining these assaults, lining them up one after the other and looking at them squarely might give them an unbearable power. Yet, I know that the opposite is true-no matter how difficult it may be to look at the realities of our lives, it is there that we will find the strength to change them. And to suppress any truth is to give it power beyond endurance. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 5626395 | For it is not the anger of Black women which is dripping down over this globe like a diseased liquid. It is not my anger that launches rockets, spends over sixty thousand dollars a second on missiles and other agents of war and death, slaughters children in cities, stockpiles nerve gas and chemical bombs, sodomizes our daughters and our earth. It is not the anger of Black women which corrodes into blind, dehumanizing power, bent upon the an.. | feminism race | Audre Lorde | |
| cb909cb | rape is not aggressive sexuality, it is sexualized aggression. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 3f2c7d5 | The tensions created inside me by the contradictions is another source of energy and learning. I have always known I learn my most lasting lessons about difference by closely attending the ways in which the differences inside me lie down together. | Audre Lorde | ||
| fdd1d46 | The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honor and self-respect we can require no less of ourselves. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 15e0dbc | Audre Lord famously argued that "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." | Steven Shaviro | ||
| e6cdbe1 | As women, we have come to distrust that power which rises from our deepest and nonrational knowledge. We have been warned against it all our lives by the male world, which values this depth of feeling enough to keep women around in order to exercise it in the service of men, but which fears this same depth too much to examine the possibility of it within themselves. So women are maintained at a distant/inferior position to be psychically mi.. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 88348aa | sacrifices. They married in record numbers and gave birth to another distinctive generation, the Baby Boomers. They stayed true to their values of personal responsibility, duty, honor, and faith. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| ee5905d | Profits must be judged as moral or immoral by how they are earned and how they are disposed. Without a new barometer, we are left with the old barometer--profit for its own sake, regardless of whether it is sustainable or ultimately ruinous. But over the course of a seven-day weekend when a reservoir of talent is tapped, a calling is found, a true, well-rounded definition of success is established, people may realize they're working not for.. | Ricardo Semler | ||
| 4dcdcec | If the people aren't motivated, they don't need to sign up for motivation training - they need a different job! | BusinessNews Publishing | ||
| da932bb | the Maya knew the time taken by the moon to orbit the earth. Their estimate of this period was 29.528395 days - extremely close to the true figure of 29.530588 days computed by the finest modern methods.11 The Mayan priests also had in their possession very accurate tables for the prediction of solar and lunar eclipses and were aware that these could occur only within plus or minus eighteen days of the node (when the moon's path crosses the.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| a8e37fa | Everything we've been taught about the origins of civilization may be wrong," says Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, PhD, senior geologist with the Research Center for Geotechnology at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences." | Graham Hancock | ||
| d7ad6dc | More than 500 deluge legends are known around the world and, in a survey of 86 of these (20 Asiatic, 3 European, 7 African, 46 American and 10 from Australia and the Pacific), the specialist researcher Dr Richard Andree concluded that 62 were entirely independent of the Mesopotamian and Hebrew accounts. | Graham Hancock | ||
| d923be9 | Shamanism is not confined to specific socio-economic settings or stages of development. It is fundamentally the ability that all of us share, some with and some without the help of hallucinogens, to enter altered states of consciousness and to travel out of body in non-physical realms - there to encounter supernatural entities and gain useful knowledge and healing powers from them. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 58a2add | At six thousand or more years older than the stone circles of Stonehenge, the megaliths of Gobekli Tepe, like the deeply buried megaliths of Gunung Padang, mean that the timeline of history taught in our schools and universities for the best part of the last hundred years can no longer stand. It is beginning to look as though civilization, as I argued in my controversial 1995 bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods, is indeed much older and muc.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 12750e8 | Bauval found that the Pyramids/Orion's Belt correlation was general and obvious in all epochs, but specific and exact in only one: At 10,450 BC - and at that date only - we find that the pattern of the pyramids on the ground provides a perfect reflection of the pattern of the stars in the sky. I mean it's a perfect match - faultless - and it cannot be an accident because the entire arrangement correctly depicts two very unusual celestial ev.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 3da1637 | An Ojibwa tradition seems relevant. It speaks of a comet that 'burned up the earth' in the remote past and that is destined to return: 'The star with the long, wide tail is going to destroy the world some day when it comes low again. That's the comet called Long-Tailed Heavenly Climbing Star. It came down here once, thousands of years ago. Just like the sun. It had radiation and burning heat in its tail ... Indian people were here before th.. | comet-impact deep-human-history destruction prophecy restoration tradition | Graham Hancock | |
| 7841ad1 | Science in the twenty-first century does NOT encourage scientists to take risks in their pursuit of "the facts"--particularly when those facts call into question long-established notions" | Graham Hancock | ||
| b39fd07 | Thabit ibn Qurra (AD 836-901, and also born in Harran), would have had little patience with loaded terms like "star idolatry" which seek to place the "paganism" of the Sabians on a lower level than the deadly, and often bigoted, narrow-minded and unscientific clerical monotheism of religions like Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Thabit was well aware that, underlying the ancient Sabian practices misunderstood by these young religions as "st.. | monotheism paganism sabians science wisdom | Graham Hancock | |
| 9f368d3 | Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, [...] came to teach [the ancient inhabitants of Mexico] the benefits of settled agriculture and the skills necessary to build temples. Although this deity is frequently depicted as a serpent, he is more often shown in human form--the serpent being his symbol and his alter ego--and is usually described as "a tall bearded white man" ... "a mysterious person ... a white man with a strong formation of body, .. | apkallu archeology civilization méxico quetzalcoatl teach | Graham Hancock | |
| e612a28 | Consider this account from the Ojibwa, a Native American people: The star with the long, wide tail is going to destroy the world some day when it comes low again. That's the comet called Long-Tailed Heavenly Climbing Star. It came down here once, thousands of years ago. Just like the sun. It had radiation and burning heat in its tail. The comet burned everything to the ground. There wasn't a thing left. Indian people were here before that h.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 1f6196f | After drinking eight cups in a row, then walking home from school, then waiting for the elevator, then digging out my key and unlocking the door to our apartment, then dashing down the hall to the bathroom, I really had to pee. I mean, really. But Fudge was already in there, sitting on the toilet, turning the pages of Arthur the Anteater. | Judy Blume | ||
| 8f245f1 | Corbin was a Platonist, and his theory of knowledge is "illuminationist." All knowledge comes from above by means of a vision of, or union with the archetypes, the Platonic Forms. The "giver of Forms" is the Angel." | Tom Cheetham | ||
| 21218a6 | The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination. | soul | James Hillman | |
| dfc1ed8 | The literal is always abstract - because reality is so much more than we can ever know or experience or imagine. | Tom Cheetham | ||
| 5b51d91 | Fear, like love, can become a call into consciousness; one meets the unconscious, the unknown, the numinous and uncontrollable by keeping in touch with fear, which elevates the blind instinctual panic of the sheep into the knowing, cunning, fearful awe of the shepherd. | James Hillman | ||
| 94eab89 | The willful amnesia afflicting the sciences in general contrasts sharply with the importance given to memory by the humanities. Literature, philosophy, politics, and the visual arts, including photography and filmmaking, feed on memory. Practitioners of the humanities need memory to deepen and refine their thinking. | James Hillman | ||
| dfe07fa | Longevity | James Hillman | ||
| 0724026 | I heard it first. Footsteps. They were faint, and not localized in any particular area, but they were footsteps. The sound was like an echo from very far away. If they were the kind of footsteps I believed them to be, they were coming from very far away, indeed. A chilly wind blew past me and Jasper barked, which woke Deanna, who was by my side in an instant. "Did you hear it, Mike? Sometimes there's a cold." No sooner had she spoken than .. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 7e030bb | Her faith in him to protect her warmed his heart on one hand, and worried him on the other; how could he protect any of them from what he could not see, much less explain? | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 77928c1 | Minerals! The invaders had virtually wiped out our entire race for minerals. But then, who were we to complain, when for centuries elements of mankind had wiped out other races and peoples over oil, land and space, and differing beliefs about the hereafter? It was chilling to think we had anything in common with an alien race implementing genocide, but perhaps they were doing on a galactic scale what we had -- at least so far -- confined to.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 384c5c0 | The city itself was dead. Some buildings had chunks missing. Bricks and concrete were scattered along sidewalks, debris mingling with bodies. Once this had been a thriving metropolis with a heartbeat all its own. Now it was a corpse, with no morgue big enough to house it. Nothing can ever prepare you for the eeriness of a great city emptied of humanity. In that small room in each of our souls where loneliness makes its home, our fear that w.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| bc79308 | Finally he turned to me, his eyes shifting from compassion to business in a heartbeat. "You didn't bring me out here for that, you must need something. Who exactly are you, and how are you playing this?" | Bobby Underwood | ||
| d4a0e75 | Jennifer and Mark were a reminder that they weren't all a lost cause. It was just a shame they were in such a minority group. Maybe they could start a movement: Decent People's Lives Matter. It could be all inclusive, even accept cops in their charter. Probably wouldn't get any traction with the PC crowd, though. Not the "right" kind of people, or the "right" kind of cause." | Bobby Underwood |