May 2012
28 posts
“It cannot be taken lightly that white men are in control of the record industry...”
– Kenyon Farrow - Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black???
“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.”
– Jaime Gil de Bieda
1 tag
. h e w n: Reply to the Question: “How can You... →
Reply to the Question: “How can You Become a Poet?” take the leaf of a tree trace its exact shape the outside edges and inner lines memorize the way it is fastened to the twig (and how the twig arches from the branch) how it springs forth in April how it is panoplied in July by late August
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes...”
– Henry Rollins
“Because equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for....”
– Joss Whedon when asked why he writes strong female characters.
“In a world thronged with monsters and with gods, we are barely conscious of...”
– Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, trans. Moncrieff and Kilmartin
“The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the...”
– John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“Why is the word yes so brief?
It should be
the longest,
the hardest,
so that...”
– Vera Pavlova, from “If There Is Something to Desire”
“The history of the world is not written, the history of Europe is.”
– Ivan Van Sertimam, Associate Professor, Rutgers University Author of They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Early America
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“The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Reproductive control of women has taken many forms. On plantations, slave owners...”
– Rachel Roth, “Backlash and Continuity”
“What song, what home,
what calm or what clarity
can I not quite come to,...”
– Christian Wiman, from “Hard Night”
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most...”
– Phillip Pullman
April 2012
21 posts
2 tags
1 tag
“have you noticed how psychological states are all nouns Happiness Sorrow Rage...”
– David Antin, from “the second hundred: for sid luft”
“Just for future reference, don’t use words like ‘love’ anymore. It’s a very...”
– Peter Craig, Hot Plastic
“How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a...”
– Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba The Greek
1 tag
“Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful...”
– Eckhart Tolle
oye,
te amo en la noche, en el súper, en la feria, en el metro, en el sillón, sentada, acostada, en cuclillas, cuando me visto, cuando me desvisto, cuando cocino, en la mañana, de pie, cuando tomo siesta, cuando preparo desayuno, al acostarme, en la ducha, bailando, en la mañana, cuando compro flores, escuchando radio, cuando reclamo, regando el pasto, comiendo fideos, cuando camino, en mi...
“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of...”
– Tom Robbins - Still Life With Woodpecker
3 tags
lille - lisa hannigan
Watchmarxisforbros:
Judith Butler explains ‘gender performativity’, a term that refers to the ways in which gender norms are established, policed and resisted. While her academic writing is dense, Butler has a wonderful and engaging way of talking. Below is the transcript.
Question: What does it mean that gender is performative? Judith Butler: It’s one thing to say that gender is performed and that...
To My (Future) Kids
Cats and dogs are not substitutes for napkins, Chocolate milk does not come from brown cows, Spaghetti sauce is not the same as water because a goldfish cannot survive without oxygen or in boiling liquids made out of tomatoes. Pulling the emergency brake in the car while the vehicle is in motion is not ok, the hole at the bottom of the toilet is not for exploring; your arm will become stuck if...
March 2012
36 posts
Place To Be - Nick Drake
(when we were young)