June 2011
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… this is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets
what they want....
– Jorie Graham, from “Prayer”
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Good morning.
It’s strange, but you can smell the rain outside. Falling, falling. Unassuming, blanketing everything it falls on. The black tar gleams, immobile road river. Shiny vehicles traverse carelessly, plowing through and spraying the streets. Along it, the thick birches seem as though they weep gently to the ground. And the flowers. Droplets on the flowers. Sustenance.
What a tranquil...
We haven’t forgotten, Michael.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our...
– Audre Lorde
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semperaugustus:
Translation was never possible. Instead there was always only conquest, the influx of the language of hard nouns, the language of the metal, the language of either/or, the one language that has eaten all the others.
Margaret Atwood, from: “Marsh Languages”
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Apa Itu Jiwa? →
mimihideung:
Apa Itu Jiwa?
oleh Bertrand Russell
diterjemahkan oleh Ignatius Yordan
Salah satu hal yang paling menyakitkan dalam kemajuan ilmu pengetahuan adalah bahwa setiap kemajuan membuat kita lebih banyak tidak tahu daripada sebelumnya. Saat saya masih muda, semua orang paham, atau mengira paham, bahwa manusia terdiri dari jiwa dan badan; bahwa badan ada dalam ruang dan waktu, tetapi jiwa...
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We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So...
– Andy Goldsworthy (via uglynature)
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No one is illegal. The people you call illegal are human beings, whose only...
– Tim Wise, anti-racism author, essayist, and educator (via azelie)
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What is sex, really? It’s not a penis going into a vagina. Nor is it a penis...
– The Pervocracy
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Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity...
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt, A Rendezvous With Destiny, 1936