Anna B
@annabwriting
@annabwriting
1) Write. There is no substitute. Write what you most passionately want to write, not blogs, posts, tweets or all the disposable bubblewrap in which modern life is cushioned. But start small: write a good sentence, then a good paragraph, and don’t be dreaming about writing the great American novel or what you’ll wear at the awards ceremony becaus
... See moreToo Late The Truth
Haki R. Madhubuti
who quieted the fourth estate,
took words, images, and liberating ideas
from the recently comatosed and stole the nation?
why was there not a storm among us
confronting the wealth of ignorance?
what is the price of deceptive and enriched silence?
who compromised the music of truth,
the poetry of deep thought?
what of th
... See more“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."
-Susan Sontag
Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.
#mindfullness #spirituality #respect
how was it possible to catch up with leisured women, who had been reading steadily from childhood?
insignificant. I knew, in that moment, and perhaps for the first time, that I would one day die, that at some point there would be nothing left of me, my mittens, my breathing, my curls, my hat. I felt that conviction for the first time. My death felt like a person standing there next to me.
Loneliness arises when thought is divorced from reality, when the common world has been replaced by the tyranny of coercive logical demands.