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“Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine act of insurrection.”
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“I want to give you something, or I want to take something from you. But I want to feel the exchange, the warm hand on the shoulder, the song coming out and the ear holding onto it.”
― Bright Dead Things
― Bright Dead Things
“There's more than two to a story -- the doers, the done-tos, and the ones who interpret who's who.”
― Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
― Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
“I am not a slow learner
I am a quick forgetter
such erasing makes one voracious
if you teach me something beautiful
I will name it quickly before it floats away”
― Calling a Wolf a Wolf
I am a quick forgetter
such erasing makes one voracious
if you teach me something beautiful
I will name it quickly before it floats away”
― Calling a Wolf a Wolf
“Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.”
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
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