For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
- Patrick Henry
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
One more person ask me if I knew the hijackers.
One more motherfucker ask me what navy my brother is in.
One more person assume no Arabs or Muslims were killed.
One more person assume they know me, or that I represent a people.
Or that a people represent an evil.
Or that evil is as simple as a flag and words on a page.
We did not vilify all white men when Mcveigh bombed Oklahoma.
America did not give out his family’s addresses or where he went to church.
Or blame the Bible or Pat Robertson.
Suheir Hammad, First Writing Since. (via bdelycleon)
So, transform yourself first…Because you are young and have dreams and want to do something meaningful, that in itself, makes you our future and our hope. Keep expanding your horizon, decolonize your mind, and cross borders.
Yuri Kochiyama (via conversationpeace)
She Said, I Prefer a Broken Neck… by Amir Sulaiman
“Remember, even the beauty of birth leaves it’s own scars and know that you will find your home right where you are.”“She said, ‘Yeah I’d like a man to kiss me, I’d like a man to hug me. But he’s got to truly love love before he can truly love me.’”
“They treat pregnancy like an STD. If the test comes back positive, it’s a negative.”
“I know that being a man is more than being male and I’m focused on doing it right.”
“Even the beauty of birth leaves it’s own scars.”
The innocence on death row is probably in the same proportion as the criminals in black robes, that smack gavels, that crack domes. That smack gavels, that smash homes.
Also add:
- Destroy lives of nonwhite people
- Ignore or excuse terror/drug crimes committed by white people
^ you’re inaccurate. Just because someone’s white doesn’t mean they get special treatment.
oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh
All reality is relationship, and all relationships are enlarged and enriched in proportion to the sensitivity with which they are perceived and lived.
Ashley Montagu
we must memorize nine numbers and forget we have a soul.
Bright Eyes
At the Bottom of Everything
Karl Marx, who spent most of his life in the reading room of the British Museum Library, probably came as little into contact with nature as it was possible to do and still stay alive. The result was that his philosophy ignored everything not human absolutely completely. He was aware (just) that food came from the country. He was aware that there must be some people out there somewhere who grew it. It was his object to rescue these imaginary people from what he called ‘the idiocy of rural life’. What is that to the idiocy of spending all your life in the British Museum Library?
John Seymour (via jarvtimmen)
