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    Fred Moten
    “The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know?”
    ― Fred Moten
    tags: feminism, racism, the-undercommons
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    Ivo Andrić
    “Nikada više ne planiram. Ja samo živim ovaj život. Ponekad kako želim, ponekad kako moram. Sitnice mi boje život. Sitnice su sreća. Zato ja volim male stvari. I velike torbe. Svuda ih sa sobom nosim, jer sebi dugujem još poneku šetnju između očekivanog i neplaniranog.”
    ― Ivo Andrić
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Criss Jami
    “The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation.”
    ― Criss Jami, Healology
    tags: athletics, baseball, basketball, bipartisan, chaos, childish, competition, conflict, conservative, country, democrat, division, economy, entertainment, fingerpointing, football, games, liberal, nation, parties, partisan, peace, politicians, politics, pride, productivity, republican, separation, soccer, solidarity, sport, triviality, unification, unity, vanity, war
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    “If solidarity is unity of purpose or togetherness, how to span this great divide of inequality, privilege, universal rights, political agency, and even our seeing things completely differently?
    In constructing this great bridge of international solidarity across the globe, where do we even begin?”
    ― Ramor Ryan, Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project & the Lessons of International Solidarity
    tags: liberation, solidarity, zapatista
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    Jamie Arpin-Ricci
    “The seeds of liberation are planted across the common table as we break bread together.”
    ― Jamie Arpin-Ricci
    tags: common-table, community, eucharist, justice, liberation, potluck, salvation, solidarity, unity
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    Bertolt Brecht
    “The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
    tags: compassion, hope, oppression, solidarity
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    Audre Lorde
    “Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.”
    ― Audre Lorde
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    Audre Lorde
    “Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose
    the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution,
    but more usually
    we must do battle where we are standing.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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    Audre Lorde
    “The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: education, teaching
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    Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders
    “Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: dehumanization, differences, different, discrimination, economics-society, institutional-oppression, institutionalized, misfits, outsiders, profit, rejection, social-outcasts, society, surplus, survival-of-the-fittest
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    Audre Lorde
    “I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side”
    ― Audre Lorde
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    Audre Lorde
    “What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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    Audre Lorde
    “Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
    tags: self-acceptance, strength
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    Audre Lorde
    “We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.”
    ― Audre Lorde
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    Audre Lorde
    “The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: the-cancer-journals
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    Audre Lorde
    “Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: community, difference, reconciliation
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    Audre Lorde
    “If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.”
    ― Audre Lorde
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    Angela Y. Davis
    “Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”
    ― Angela Davis
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    Angela Y. Davis
    “In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”
    ― Angela Y. Davis
    tags: racism
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    Angela Y. Davis
    “It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.”
    ― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
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    Toni Morrison
    “In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: bigotry, politics, racism
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    Susan Sontag
    “Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: history, jewish, mozart, race, racism, shakespeare
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    James Baldwin
    “Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”
    ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
    tags: politics, race
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    Hannah Arendt
    “Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
    ― Hannah Arendt
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    Hannah Arendt
    “The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.”
    ― Hannah Arendt
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    Hannah Arendt
    “Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.”
    ― Hannah Arendt
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    Arundhati Roy
    “...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.

    That is their mystery and their magic.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: stories
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Coincidences are spiritual puns.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: coincidence, puns
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    David Graeber
    “I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren’t hurting anyone. Insofar as the time they are taking time off from work is being spent with friends and family, enjoying and caring for those they love, they’re probably improving the world more than we acknowledge.”
    ― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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