January 2012
“The scientists analyzed billions of words from Twitter, a half-century of music...”
– Scientists find English is an overwhelmingly positive language. Further reading: Steven Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature. (via curiositycounts)
There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions →
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yourhue:
From “There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions” by Audre Lorde
I was born Black, and a woman. I am trying to become the strongest person I can become to live the life I have been given and to help effect change toward a liveable future for this earth and for my children. As a Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, poet, mother of two including one boy and a member of an...
“My shift lasted from 6 p.m. to midnight. Sylvia warned me that George often came...”
– James Gregor remembers George Whitman, of Shakespeare and Company. (via millionsmillions)
“Freedom is █████ ███████████ █████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██ ████ ██ ████████ ██ ███...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stop SOPA and PIPA. (via ckck)
“Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the...”
– Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day”
“Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have...”
– Noam Chomsky (via revolutionnow)
Today, like every day, is a really good day to... →
“in time of daffodils (who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting...”
– ee cummings (via starryhours)
“You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.”
– Anna Akhmatova (via beautyandthemuse)
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there...”
– Frida Kahlo (via annaharo)
“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
– W. G. Sebald, Vertigo, trans. Michael Hulse (via proustitute)
“(Elegy for his Hands)
It was late, I was drunk, you were warm
to my hand, I...”
– Robyn Art, Notes About His Hands, Part 4 (via grammatolatry)
“You would really hope that a bookshop is the last place to be so slapdash with...”
– Waterstones drops its apostrophe - Telegraph
“Last Friday I went along to Sweny’s, the pharmacy on Lincoln Place made famous...”
– The Book Bench: Has James Joyce Been Set Free? : The New Yorker
“We are the echo of the future
On the door it says what to do to survive
But...”
– W. S. Merwin, from “The River of Bees” (via ekphora)
“I closed the book and changed my life and changed my life and changed my life…”
– Bruce Smith, from “Untitled” (via proustitute)
Another Quora gem: an answer to the question “what is it like to have an understanding of very advanced mathematics?”
You are comfortable with feeling like you have no deep understanding of the problem you are studying. Indeed, when you do have a deep understanding, you have solved the problem and it is time to do something else. This makes the total time you spend in life reveling...
“Even after all this time
The Sun never Says
to the Earth
You Owe
Me.
Look...”
– Hafiz 14th Century [translated by Daniel Ladinsky] (via elliottholt)
December 2011
“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done...”
– Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source (via marxisforbros)
Eh this is completely wrong. He was actually quite fond of the Reagans. It was at a White House dinner however. Here is what...