May 2012
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You can outrun what is running after you, but not what is running inside of you
– Rwandan Proverb
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What do we know of somebody if we know nothing of the images passed to him by...
– Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
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You will soon discover that you are less whole than you realize, filled with...
– Dear Twenty-Something Self, Mark Scandrette
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I asked a young White woman why she was studying social anthropology. She...
– African feminist, Ifi Amadiume
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April 2012
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But of course.
… What do I know? I’m not Muslim enough.
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I envy the sand that met his feet
I’m jealous of honey he tasted sweet.
– Hamza Yusuf (via majdimam)
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Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and...
– Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth.
Let’s think about this for a moment in relation to the “Arab Spring” or the “Arab Awakening” and how we (they) have already begun to reconstruct and write a narrative of “pre-revolution” history, even in the way we have titled the uprisings. So in Fanon’s...
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Disliking hip-hop doesn’t make you a racist any more than liking hip-hop makes...
– Jack Hamilton, “America Is Dying Slowly: Talking About Hip-Hop After Trayvon Martin” (Good)
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Dear Person Who Took My iPod,
… I hope you enjoy 160GB of good shit, and mix tapes for when you get some (‘cos I have a long list of that stuff, to make sure you do get some). Please feel free to flick through pictures of my family and friends (I cannot confirm if the pictures are compromising or not). Go through my Recently Played list and see all the shit I’ve been listening to on loop for the past two...
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I’m a man of faith; I’m a practicing Muslim. At the same time, I grew up well...
– Anwar Ibrahim, Asia360: Understanding Anwar
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INTERVIEWER
You have said that writing is a hostile act; I have always wanted...
– The Art of Fiction No 71, The Paris Review (via iankhalil)
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Decoding the Beyonce Tumblr | Celebrity Gossip,... →
bowielovesbeyonce:
MUST READ.
What a welcome, fascinating change. Agreed must read.
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… And I’m very much afraid of the whole bloody human race… Who wouldn’t be...
– Jean Rhys, Good Morning Midnight (via libraryland)
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