You don’t have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don’t have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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Toni Morrison: I never use anyone I know. In The Bluest Eye I think I used some gestures and dialogue of my mother in certain places, and a little geography. I’ve never done that since. I really am very conscientious about that. It’s never based on anyone. I don’t do what many writers do.
Interviewer: Why is that?
Toni Morrison: There is this feeling that artists have—photographers, more than other people, and writers—that they are acting like a succubus … this process of taking from something that’s alive and using it for one’s own purposes. You can do it with trees, butterflies, or human beings. Making a little life for oneself by scavenging other people’s lives is a big question, and it does have moral and ethical implications.
In fiction, I feel the most intelligent, and the most free, and the most excited, when my characters are fully invented people. That’s part of the excitement. If they’re based on somebody else, in a funny way it’s an infringement of a copyright. That person owns his life, has a patent on it. It shouldn’t be available for fiction.
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stylin’ on ‘em.
Adepero Oduye, star of “Pariah”
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i just listened to this a few times for myself. figured maybe some else needed to hear it. it’s called ‘4 tears’.
So this is what happens when you tell your two gay dads that they’re going to be grandpas.
LMAO! This is so cute.
OH GOD! This made me tear up!
*think M&M commercial* Black Love? it does exist (unlike Santa and walking, talking, super size M&M).
had someone ask me when was the last time I saw two brownskinned black people in loving poses with one another…took me abt 3 mins on my FB page to come up with this….we stay losing by talking abt black love as if it’s in a state of crisis and lack. (pardon the heteronormativity…I was moving quickly…and though this had nothing to do w/my point, each of the above couples is actually married too…again 180 seconds of perusing the first few letters of the alphabet of my FB friends)
black love
i’ve now literally lost 6 Lbs with http://apps.facebook.com/hcgslim/. Has anyone else tried it? If not, I highly recommend!
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rarely is growth comfortable.
-pierre bennu
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Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt they can’t afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a “disciplinary technique,” and, by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the “disciplinarian culture.” This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.
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