beautifully said
turns of phrase worth remembering, sentences that make you feel, or think, or laugh, or cry
beautifully said
Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
Terrible Onlineness
A World In the Grip of a Terrible Onlineness
“You can only cook what’s in the fridge”
“Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually — without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts?... Comfort has come to be its own corruption.” — Lorraine Hansberry, Black playwright and writer
Cultural Worker, Not A “Creative”
Ours is the work of helping others hold those artifacts and insights in their hands, however briefly, and of considering what ought to be reserved from the ever-sucking vortex of oblivion—and why. It’s the calling known as education, which the literary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak once defined as the “non-coercive rearranging of desire.”
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? | the New Yorker
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.”
― Georgia O'Keefe
“People aren’t dumb. The world is hard.” — Richard Thaler
Adam Singer • All behavior makes sense with sufficient information
That essential friction—between how you see yourself and how the world sees you—occupied the thoughts of every girl I spoke to. Coming of age is that moment when awareness descends on you like an itchy wool sweater. How do you move around it? Can you just take it off?