Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Listen, small dog, he said. Humans do not always mean what is meant by the sounds they make. You must be careful.
Andre Alexis • Fifteen Dogs
And Star Wars (the force); William Gibson (Idoru); China Mieville (dream shit); Nalo Hopkinson (sensual breathtaking magic); the Zapatistas (many worlds exist); the Black Panthers (meet the biological needs of a community as a mode of organizing); Black feminist artists Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Lucille Clifton, and Toni Cade Bambara
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Neither blackness nor “people of color” stimulates in me notions of excessive, limitless love, anarchy, or routine dread.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
The white sheep comes home to roost.
Lisa Ko • The Leavers (National Book Award Finalist): A Novel
She spoke like an American, with the same expectations of fairness, even fairness belated and begrudged, that she took into medical school all those years ago. And she spoke like a black woman, with all the pain that undercuts those exact feelings.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • Between the World and Me
looked like a carp, with a receding chin and goggly eyes,
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
There were those slaves who claimed a distinction between good masters and cruel masters. Most of us considered such to be distinction without difference. I