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"I should've listened to my instinct. I thought *maybe* the author would surprise me. No.
I don't want to shit on a Black debut author so I'm going to hold off on publicly writing about this until I parse out the author's intentions." — Nov 22, 2018 10:55AM
"I should've listened to my instinct. I thought *maybe* the author would surprise me. No.
I don't want to shit on a Black debut author so I'm going to hold off on publicly writing about this until I parse out the author's intentions." — Nov 22, 2018 10:55AM
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"I finished this book yesterday. I'm writing a thorough review for an outlet but for now, I'll say this is a good book. I think the disconnect I experienced was a consequence of the fact that I read a digital version (not my preference) and I read while in a completely different environment from which I usually do (immersed in a highly social residency).
I'll update when the review runs." — Oct 07, 2018 09:20AM
"I finished this book yesterday. I'm writing a thorough review for an outlet but for now, I'll say this is a good book. I think the disconnect I experienced was a consequence of the fact that I read a digital version (not my preference) and I read while in a completely different environment from which I usually do (immersed in a highly social residency).
I'll update when the review runs." — Oct 07, 2018 09:20AM
“Even as you kept telling me that I'm becoming a woman, you never let me go out into the world to be free.”
― American Street
― American Street
“Do you already know that your existence--who and how you are--is in and of itself a contribution to the people and place around you? Not after or because you do some particular thing, but simply the miracle of your life. And that the people around you, and the place(s), have contributions as well? Do you understand that your quality of life and your survival are tied to how authentic and generous the connections are between you and the people and place you live with and in?
Are you actively practicing generosity and vulnerability in order to make the connections between you and others clear, open, available, durable? Generosity here means giving of what you have without strings or expectations attached. Vulnerability means showing your needs.”
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Are you actively practicing generosity and vulnerability in order to make the connections between you and others clear, open, available, durable? Generosity here means giving of what you have without strings or expectations attached. Vulnerability means showing your needs.”
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“In a fractal conception, I am a cell-sized unit of the human organism, and I have to use my life to leverage a shift in the system by how I am, as much as with the things I do. This means actually being in my life, and it means bringing my values into my daily decision making. Each day should be lived on purpose.”
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
“A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover.”
― Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
― Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
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