From 'Titanic' To Beatles 2: Why It's Really Not OK That Sequel Culture Is Our Only Culture
: One Art
One ArtThe art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. --Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.— Elizabeth Bishop
3 When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it’s a very vicious cycle.
Malcolm X (via warriorsrise)
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Me gustaria hacer el amor como los hipopotamos
“Sí, es feo, tosco, da la impresion de la brutalidad, pero, en realidad es muy delicado. Me emociona esa contradiccion. Además, practica el sexo con gran convicción. La vida sexual de los hipopotamos, aunque esto parezca un juego cortazariano requiere elaboracion, en una vida muy refinada. Si algun animal practica el erotismo, este es, sin dudas, el hipopotamo, que goza haciendo el amor”.
-Mario Vargas Llosa
Desarrollo Humano, una cuestión de poder
No hay razones para suponer que las instituciones políticas y las relaciones de poder vayan a cambiar de manera espontánea. Si la sociedad no se organiza, se empodera, se moviliza y reestructura las relaciones de poder no habrá desarrollo humano, porque el desarrollo humano es una cuestión de poder.
1 It’s okay to give up. It’s okay to feel like not doing anything anymore…just as long as you wake up the next morning and do what the fuck you gotta do.
Junot Diaz (paraphrased, National Dominican Student Conference 2012)
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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love the sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your window. So that’s why I’m scared when you say you love me.
Bob Marley (via inandoutofme)
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Murph Is Thinking: The Need to be Right
When we think about controversial topics the image of a heated argument is usually one of the first things that pops into our heads. And understandably we usually shy away from talking about them. Most of us don’t want to get into a big fight. But, regardless of whether or not we engage…
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