January 2011
22 posts
“What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.”
– Paulo Coelho, The Zahir (via quote-book)
Teaching Race to (Your) Children →
I hadn’t figured out how to explain to [my 6-year-old daughter] what I break down to my college-age students all the time: that race is a biological fiction that attains reality because we, as a society, have made it real. I teach that there’s no inherent logic to race aside from our own propensity to create and sustain differences between people but nonetheless, that social reality has very...
“I wear a lot of axe body spray but I live in a black neighborhood, and there...”
– Zach Galafanakis
That is racist.
(via thatisracist)
“To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one’s own, is ever the...”
– Felix Adler (via mohandasgandhi)
“‘Forgive and forget,’ that’s what they say. It’s good advice, but it’s not very...”
– Grey’s Anatomy (via solarelephant)
“At the end of the day, you either focus on what’s tearing you apart, or what’s...”
– (via eletheowl)
Reasons I will never be in a nice, normal, healthy...
1. Carrie Bradshaw
Carrie Bradshaw, at first glance, lives the life all people want to live. She’s got really available best friends, 8 million dollars worth of clothing, and is allowed to chain-smoke by her computer all day instead of having a real job. And since she is the narrative voice of the show she stars in that we all watch, we believe that we she is relatable enough to be a real person...
This is looking like a contest, of who can act...
“I was asked years ago to address the elementary school that my son attended and...”
– Legendary NYC political muckraker Wayne Barrett, in a departing column for the Village Voice. Barrett was let go from the Voice; fellow investigative reporter Tom Robbins followed him out the door. As a former Barrett intern, we can attest that this is truly the end of an era. (via newsweek)
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
– Joseph Brodsky (via Wisdom, Received)
“When it comes to men that are romantically interested in you, it’s really...”
– Randy Pausch (via runawaytrain)