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trying to beat the “this bitch is not reading shit” allegations

"fish thrive in the water, man thrives in the Way"

“i had a dream / i pht my hands / inside my chest / and held mu heart / to try to keep it still”

underestimated how much this book would make me want a pet snail

underestimated how much this book would make me want a pet snail

"As Charles Ngwena argues, 'Africanness presents itself in the form of a lifelong conversation without an end precisely because of the ever- evolving, unfinished, unfolding multiplicities of conjectural African identifications at play in the grand drama of life.'"

"The contemporary neo-liberal discourse has one fundamental blind spot. It treats the present as if the present has had no history." — Issa Shivji

"but where there is birth, there must be death; where there is death, there must be birth."

and they were Roommates

and they were Roommates

“first stop on the psychedelic trip is the library”

“i imagine death to be a lond of release into the imagination”

"attack those who deprive your stomach,
not those who came here for their stomach's sake"

"attack those who deprive your stomach,
not those who came here for their stomach's sake"

“i wasnt in love with her or anything. i was just pulled to her the way a flying fish must be pulled towards the air.”

“for americans korea is both: a forgotten war and a never-known war. the war began to disappear from consciousness as soon as the fighting stabilized: the first time it was ever named “forgotten.”… but if the war is never over, how can it be forgotten?”

“when a person like abe shinzo or aso taro comes to power in japan, pyeongyang remembers what others don’t know or forgot: their genealogy.”

"Instead of affirming that “transparency creates trust,” one should instead say, “transparency dismantles trust.” The demand for transparency grows loud precisely when trust no longer prevails."