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Popular wisdom held that Cadia was a hotbed of recidivism due to its proximity to the Eye, but in Rovetske’s experience, the unrelenting martial culture manufactured about as many rebels as it did soldiers. He never had to work hard, just
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“I think it is healing behavior, to look at something so broken and see the possibility and wholeness in it.”
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
“We are in an imagination battle.
Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown and Renisha McBride and so many others are dead because, in some white imagination, they were dangerous. And that imagination is so respected that those who kill, based on an imagined, radicalized fear of Black people, are rarely held accountable.
Imagination has people thinking they can go from being poor to a millionaire as part of a shared American dream. Imagination turns Brown bombers into terrorists and white bombers into mentally ill victims. Imagination gives us borders, gives us superiority, gives us race as an indicator of ability. I often feel I am trapped inside someone else's capability. I often feel I am trapped inside someone' else's imagination, and I must engage my own imagination in order to break free.”
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown and Renisha McBride and so many others are dead because, in some white imagination, they were dangerous. And that imagination is so respected that those who kill, based on an imagined, radicalized fear of Black people, are rarely held accountable.
Imagination has people thinking they can go from being poor to a millionaire as part of a shared American dream. Imagination turns Brown bombers into terrorists and white bombers into mentally ill victims. Imagination gives us borders, gives us superiority, gives us race as an indicator of ability. I often feel I am trapped inside someone else's capability. I often feel I am trapped inside someone' else's imagination, and I must engage my own imagination in order to break free.”
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
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“If you once believed that everything always turns out well in the end, you can be persuaded that nothing turns out well in the end. If you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.”
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“You can safely assume that if you are consciously obsessed with something right now, you’re going to have trouble writing about it well. Why? Because its full significance has not yet become clear to you. And because you yourself, as you currently exist, are not yet clear to you. Didion’s essay is an elegant compendium of moments from her New York years, the moments she has been unable to forget. These are not the expected landmarks—her first big break, or heartbreak—but quieter episodes that have come to symbolize the experience: the exaltation of eating a peach on Lexington Avenue at twilight; the dejection of watching “the long panels of transparent golden silk” hung in her window become “tangled and drenched in afternoon thunderstorms.” I am constantly imploring students to pay special attention to anything they can’t forget. If an image, or interaction, or sensation, or snatch of dialogue snags in your consciousness, it bears investigation.”
― Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories
― Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories
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