February 2012
5 posts
Occupy Valentine's Day: “Genuine love is rarely an... →
occupyvday:
“Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment…’dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real…
“we came to the brow of the hill and you could see far… this was the motor...”
– Rikki Stein (speaking on the Fela Kuti’s funeral)
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
11 posts
“Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it.
Nature says women are human beings, men cry out NO!
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north.
Women are oppressed inside, outside home.
Whether a woman is a believer or a non-believer, she is oppressed.
Beautiful or ugly, oppressed.
Crippled or not, rich or poor, literate or...
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“You start out in 1954 by saying “n***** n******.” By 1968 you...”
– Lee Atwater (Republican Strategist)
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Last night I dreamt that I was working at a hotel where the world leaders were meeting. I felt like there wasn’t enough security for some reason. I walked out past the motorcades and people were walking out. I heard sniper shots and saw a few people drop then heard announcements from an ominous speaker that said you will all die. I tucked my head beneath like a bush or something. When I woke...
100 years ago racial cleansing was occurring in... →
You may think that only happened in Darfur and Bosnia. But not even 100 years ago racial cleansing was occurring in the United States and the effects of it still last.
November 2011
6 posts
“I asked professors who teach the meaning of life to tell
me what is...”
– Carl Sandburg
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“Not to know what has been transacted in the past is to be always a child”
– Cicero
October 2011
12 posts
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The blue finger from a Tunisian who voted for the... →
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“No refuge could save the hireling and the slave/ From the terror of flight or...”
– Francis Scott Key (The Star-Spangled Banner)
“If prosperity and privilege are equated with whiteness within American culture,...”
– James R. Keller (Whiteness [in]visible: Eminem and the Politics of White Male Privilege)
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September 2011
13 posts
My Q&A with Wangechi Mutu →
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August 2011
15 posts
Rare Standard “‘Watermelon Man’...