January 2011
“You are free, so choose; in other words, invent. No general code of ethics can...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via human-voices)
Can't We Be Friends? →
You know what really grates on me? When adults see a little boy and girl playing together and try to style them as boyfriend and girlfriend. It speaks to an anxiety around trying to shepherd people into accepted roles and the “proper” ways of relating. And, as one gets older, there’s a whole lot of pressure to relate to friends of the opposite gender (I dislike that term so much: there aren’t...
“Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of...”
– Ingmar Bergman (via abloodymess)
“An Ingmar Bergman film is, if you like, one twenty-fourth of a second...”
– Godard (on Bergman)
Benjamin Zephaniah-'Biko the Greatness'
Wickedness tried to kill greatness. In a corner of South Africa Where they believed there were No mothers and fathers No sisters and brothers And Where they believed One could not hear the cries of another, Wickedness tried to kill greatness. Wickedness tried to build a nation Of white tyrants. In a corner of the planet They arrogantly downpressed They did not overstand As they suffered the...
Stephen Biko Biography (South African History) →
Steve Biko's Book
it seems the people involved in imparting Christianity to the black people steadfastly refuse to get rid of the rotten foundation which many of the missionaries created when they came. to this date black people find no message for them in them in the bible simply because our ministers are still too busy with moral trivialities. they blow these up as the most important things that Jesus had to say...
ahillsidedesolate:
You don’t have to be gay to support gay rights.
What is wrong with some people.
Tonight! Today In Women's History website launches...
bibliofeminista:
http://todayinwomenshistory.com
It will focus on one woman in history each day from a wide range of backgrounds, so we can learn a little bit more and respect those who have come before us and done great things.
