“Learning to love the process.”– a letterpress visual art piece by Ian Coyle (see the piece and many others here)
“We live in time–it holds us and moulds us–but I’ve never felt I understood it very well. And I’m not referring to theories about how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versions. No, I mean ordinary, everyday time, which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly… And yet it takes […]
“Every unaccepted pronouncement isn’t hidden wisdom. And every speaker of provocative things isn’t a genius. Saying someone has the courage to say the unsayable is meaningless without analysis of what exactly is said.” – Tami Winfrey Harris, “‘He had the courage to say unpopular things’: No praise for courting controversy” (via Racialicious)
“Prodigy is, at its essence, adaptability and persistent, positive obsession. Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment. Without adaptability, what remains may be channeled into destructive fanatacism. Without positive obsession, there is nothing at all.” – Lauren Oya Olamina in Earthseed: The Books of the Living (read as an epigraph to Octavia […]
“The particularity of our problems can only be made bearable though the recognition of our universal humanity. We suffer uniquely, but we survive the same way. Not one of us made it without someone offering a firm grip.” – Dear Sugar, “#84: The Distance of the Leap” Take a moment to recognize those around you, […]