October 2011
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September 2011
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making it simple
Darius, who doesn’t like school, who is sometimes stupid and mostly a fool, said something wise today, though most days he says nothing. Darius, who chases girls with firecrackers or a stick that touched a rat and thinks he’s tough, today pointed up because the world was full of clouds, the kind like pillows. You see that cloud, that fat one there? Darius said, See that? Where? ...
August 2011
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July 2011
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Cornel on Barry →
“Look at that bust of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oval Office and recognize that tears are flowing when you let Geithner and others shape your economic policy, when you refuse to focus on poor and working people or when you drop the drone bombs that kill innocent civilians. Tim Geithner does not represent the legacy of Martin King.”
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Tax bad foods, subsidize vegetables? →
A lot easier said than done. Food is a powerful, powerful drug.
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“We needed time to consider ourselves, to come up with a theory about who we were...”
– “Nobody Belongs Here More Than You,” Miranda July
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texas forever (via the paris review) →
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“Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what...”
– Dean Spade. For Lovers and Fighters. http://www.makezine.enoughenough.org/newpoly2.html (via childrenofnothing)
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Oh, Lenny
“I hate the Fourth of July. The early middle age of summer. Everything is alive and kicking for now, but the eventual decline into fall has already set itself in motion. Some of the lesser shrubs and bushes, seared by the heat, are starting to resemble a bad peroxide job. The heat reaches a blazing peak, but summer is lying to itself, burning out like some alcoholic genius. And you...
“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.”
– William Faulkner (via middlechildcomplex)
May 2011
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WatchWhat Teachers Can Learn From Hip Hop Culture
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