The word “cannibal,” the English variant of the Spanish word canibal, comes from the word caribal, a reference to the native Carib people in the West Indies, who Columbus thought ate human flesh and from whom the word “Caribbean”
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“Isaiah smiled at Samuel's unwillingness, his grunts and sighs and head shaking, even though he understood the danger in it. Tiny resistances were a kind of healing in a weeping place.”
― The Prophets
― The Prophets
“Graffiti is the art of the people. It is a language without clear official status, but whose instinctive quality testifies to the honesty of human experience and the true nobility of art.
Often marked with a sense of eroticism and violence, the wall conserves something pure and sacred about the human story.”
― In Search for Meaning
Often marked with a sense of eroticism and violence, the wall conserves something pure and sacred about the human story.”
― In Search for Meaning
“There are no lines. For everything is a circle, turning back on itself endlessly. This is not to make you dizzy, but to give you the chance to get it right the next time.”
― The Prophets
― The Prophets
“Tiny resistances were a kind of healing in a weeping place.”
― The Prophets
― The Prophets
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