Jasmine Roseboro

stress is a perverted relationship to time, so that rather than being a subject of your own time, you have become its target and victim, and time has become routine

In the West, modern museums evolved from so-called Cabinets of Curiosities, which typically displayed wondrous artifacts of the natural world—shells, fossils, plants and organisms—taken from their context and mounted inside. The natural world is sampled and split apart, studied and displayed.

Mid is a perfect bit of new slang for a culture in which quantity is crushing quality, in which you can stream endlessly and feel nothing.

It is often in the cradle of friendship — a word not to be used carelessly — that our creative energies are strengthened and renewed.

the Black migration that built racial enclaves that became microsites of political power.

I think you see that the gifts that are given to us as individuals are not for us alone, or for our own self-improvement, but they’re actually for the community and to be offered.