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I am most happy when I feel myself exist beyond any fixed identity or role. I am most happy when I feel lost in the things I create and love. I’m no longer me, but part of something great and unstoppable. The power of that loss is always striking when it occurs, and it happens again and again when I stop thinking about myself so much, and just... See more
everyone wants to be a DJ, no one wants to dance
there was a such a high level of
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connoisseurship
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of everything that that that that people
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like this were interested in
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you know of everything that made the
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culture better you ca
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you know a very discerning audience a
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very you know
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an audience with a high level of
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connoisseurship um
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is as important to the culture as
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a... See more
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connoisseurship
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of everything that that that that people
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like this were interested in
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you know of everything that made the
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culture better you ca
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you know a very discerning audience a
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very you know
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an audience with a high level of
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connoisseurship um
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is as important to the culture as
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a... See more
An audience with a high level of connoisseurship is as important to the culture as artists
The effect of Aids
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that aids had
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on the culture in the sense i mean
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people don't talk about anymore but when
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people did talk about
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it uh they talked about like what
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artists were lost
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but they never talked about this
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audience that was lost you know when
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people talk about like
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why would you know why was new york city
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that aids had
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on the culture in the sense i mean
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people don't talk about anymore but when
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people did talk about
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it uh they talked about like what
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artists were lost
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but they never talked about this
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audience that was lost you know when
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people talk about like
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why would you know why was new york city
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An audience with a high level of connoisseurship is as important to the culture as artists
I feel simultaneously intensely insignificant and hyperaware of how important everyone is.
Emily Austin • Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel
At camp I didn’t have to worry about what I needed, or how much help I could ask for at one time. I didn’t have to secretly rank what I needed in order of importance so as not to ask for too much at once. I didn’t have to feel that bad feeling I got when something was inaccessible and someone said no to something I knew I could have done myself if
... See moreJudith Heumann • Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Gratitude and reciprocity are the currency of a gift economy, and they have the remarkable property of multiplying with every exchange, their energy concentrating as they pass from hand to hand, a truly renewable resource.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
The prosperity of the community grows from the flow of relationships, not the accumulation of goods.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Each person has the potential to learn and succeed given a supportive environment.
Carolyn Finney • Been Outside: Adventures of Black Women, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming People in Nature
The concept of interdependence—that all people have needs, that none of us can get through the world solely on our own, and that having needs was not weak or bad or shameful—was an exciting and revolutionary part of the work, a break from and add-on to the disability rights movement’s ideas of independence.