England’s prime minister Boris Johnson (a small horror film in five words)
“It was a privilege to be loved by him, though. I really do believe that. I used to believe it was a privilege to be loved by anybody. Not anymore.”
― Just by Looking at Him
― Just by Looking at Him
“The privilege of assimilation is that you are left alone. But assimilation must not be mistaken for power, because once you have acquired power, you are exposed, and your model minority qualifications that helped you in the past can be used against you, since you are no longer invisible.”
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“felt”
― The Pisces
― The Pisces
“That’s what the Stoics believed—Zeno and Seneca, those ancient fuckers. The trick, I now agreed, was you had to remain unattached to any future wishes or vision.”
― The Pisces
― The Pisces
“Everyone is familiar with the slogan "The personal is political" -- not only that what we experience on a personal level has profound political implications, but that our interior lives, our emotional lives are very much informed by ideology. We oftentimes do the work of the state in and through our interior lives. What we often assume belongs most intimately to ourselves and to our emotional life has been produced elsewhere and has been recruited to do the work of racism and repression.”
― Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
― Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
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