May 2013
“I am
a series of
small victories
and large defeats
and I am as
amazed
as...”
– Charles Bukowski (via colinfirth)
THIS IS NOT KOREA/KOREAN!: angryasiangirlsunited:... →
angryasiangirlsunited:
Did you know that in North America, Asians are bullied much, much more than other people of colour?
And yet, I’m told often that “you’re so lucky to be Asian, I wish I had your discipline”, “it’s not racism if you’re seen with positive connotations” or “you don’t…
“That’s right, we got AlDS out there. You think they’re gonna cure AlDS? No, they...”
– Real talk from Chris Rock (via unapologetically-black)
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April 2013
“[I dreamt that I woke up.] It’s the oldest dream of all, and I’ve just had it.”
– Julian Barnes, from A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (via the-final-sentence)
“I speak out of direct and particular anger at an academic conference, and a...”
– Audre Lorde “Women Responding to Racism” in Sister Outsider (via luvyourselfsomeesteem)
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“White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or be...”
– bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From margin to center (via orindamoraga)
“men still have trouble recognizing that a woman can be complex, can have...”
– natalie dormer. (via jaimelannister)
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“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
—Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables (A. Lacroix, Verboeckhovven & Cie, 1862)
“The past beats within me, like a second heart.”
– John Banville - The Sea (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Archaeologists have not yet discovered any stage of human existence without art....”
– Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn, Beauty Will Save the World (via quaerere-deum)
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