January 2011
23 posts
“You think because he doesn’t love you that you are worthless. You think...”
– Toni Morrison speaking truth. to. p o w e r.
Toni Morrison on Love...
“Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to do with how your body responds to another body like robins or bison or maybe you believe love is how forces or nature or luck is benign to you in...
“In Haiti, people never really die,” my grandmothers said when I was a child,...”
– Edwidge Danticat from “A Year and a Day” in the New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/01/17/110117taco_talk_danticat?currentPage=all
“The nation, if America is a nation, is not in the least prepared for this day....”
– An Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Davis by James Baldwin
“I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I...”
– Zora Neale Hurston
“It’s the difference between putting on makeup to look like your slutty...”
– via The Pervocracy:
http://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2010/11/feminism-and-sexiness.html
Poetry 365: Just a New York Poem, Nikki Giovanni →
i wanted to take your hand and run with you together toward ourselves down the street to your street i wanted to laugh aloud and skip the notes past the marquee advertising “women in love” past the record shop with “The Spirit In The Dark” past the smoke shop past the park and no …
Chinua Achebe on becoming a writer
Then I grew older and began to read about adventures in which I didn’t know that I was supposed to be on the side of those savages who were encountered by the good white man. I instinctively took sides with the white people. They were fine! They were excellent. They were intelligent. The others were not … they were stupid and ugly. That was the way I was introduced to the danger of not...
