Maria

“Sometimes just being yourself is the radical act. When you occupy space in systems that weren't built for you, your authenticity is activism”
― Elaine Welteroth, More than enough Claiming Space For Who You Are

“Nunca abandonei aquele poeta, ainda o visito no parque. Não sei quantas pessoas ainda visitam os seus poetas abandonados, mas se procurarem bem, há muitos parques cheios deles, dentro e fora de nós. O meu, que comprei quando tinha treze ou catorze anos, ainda o visito. Sentamo-nos os dois e dizemos inutilidades. Algumas dessas inutilidades até são poemas. Ele olha para mim com lágrimas nos olhos (deixei de contabilizar estas coisas), eu fico com uma metáfora na garganta, abraço-o, e somos felizes durante uns segundos, ou melhor, durante eternidades.”
― Afonso Cruz

“You were very serious,” her grandmother continued. “You had these big brown eyes and you were always going, ‘What’s that? What’s that?’ You wondered what everything was. You would frown and point a lot, like a conductor looking for your orchestra. You always seemed very busy, like you were between appointments all the time, but you were just a little child.”
― Carrie Fisher

“I'm a real self-educated kind of guy. I read voraciously. Every book I ever bought, I have. I can't throw it away. It's physically impossible to leave my hand! Some of them are in warehouses. I've got a library that I keep the ones I really really like. I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myself--I count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, 'F@#%k, I can't read two-thirds of these books.' It overwhelms me with sadness."
--David Bowie, quoted in the Daily Beast in a 2002 interview with Bob Guccione, Jr.”
― David Bowie