"It is possible never to have done with knocking our heads over the same few biographical incidents that insist upon being the arbitrary markers of our lives."
- Carolivia Herron, Thereafter Johnnie
"A constructive politics pursues specific goals or end results, rather than aiming to avoid “complicity” in injustices that we assume will mostly persist anyway."
- Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture
"The artists I work with turn to emotion because this is where ideology does its most devastating work."
– Jennifer Doyle, Hold It Against Me
"Why are you so sad? You read too much poetry. And you believe the wrong things about poetry. Poetry doesn't come from outer space. Poetry doesn't descend from heaven. Give life a chance. Life is stronger than the interpretation of life."
- Carolivia Herron, Thereafter Johnnie
"Wandering and drifting was how she engaged the world and how she understood it; this repertoire of practices composed her knowledge."
– Saidiya V. Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
“If you remember better times / you know they were lies, because they led / to this”
- Alice Notley, Certain Magical Acts
"Everything seems like a car speeding off a cliff, with no driver and no brakes. But, then again, the problem is that it doesn’t feel like this nearly enough, or for enough people, that we won’t properly feel it until we’ve sped stupidly past the point of no return. And then a suspicion that I have it all wrong. That things are already shifting into more sustainable models and we can’t miss our chance, everyone with a conscience must put all of our force into making this shift a reality."
Some passages from Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by Patrick Cottrell
Some passages from Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by Patrick Cottrell : * “Friendship has been a form of poison to me, I thought as I tri...
“Songs mean a lot
When songs are bought
And so are you”
- Pavement, Cut Your Hair
"You could learn to play tennis or swim or drive a car. And what if you really do belong in the world after all and the prophecy is wrong that says you must lose your soul? Why should you lose your soul? Why does so much horror lie upon you? Why don't you give up and live?"
- Carolivia Herron, Thereafter Johnnie
