Iysha

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I am writing this sitting in my small office in Brussels. The
month of June is nearly gone and the heat has just arrived.
I work in a building that hosts various organizations and
charities working for global justice. Some focus on Western
Sahara; some on Palestine; others on torture, Latin
America, or Africa. It is a good environment to work in,
surrounded by people who believe in a fairer and better
society, and who have decided to act on their beliefs and
dedicate their lives to trying to change the world. Sounds
utopian, maybe. But the important word here is probably
not the one you are thinking of. It’s trying. Trying and
trying again. Never stopping. That is a victory in itself.
Everyone and everything tells you that “outside” you will
not succeed, that it is too late, that we live in an epoch
where a revolution cannot happen anymore. Radical
changes are a thing of the past. You can be an outsider, but
not outside the system, and you can have political beliefs,
even radical ones, but they need to stay within the bounds
of the permissible, inside that bubble that has been drawn
for you by the elites.”
― Frank Barat, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement