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“Trump is a painful reminder of what America is at risk of losing, and how far high it has yet to climb.” ―David Masciotra
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“I believe firmly that love is a transforming power that can lift a whole community to new horizons of fair play, goodwill, and justice.” ―Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.” ―Hannah Arendt
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“He will have achieved the exact opposite of what he believed he was going to achieve when he set out to do this in the first place.” ―Alec Baldwin
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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“Only those who fully embrace cynicism are free to give their undying loyalty to a leader who promises to grant importance to the purposelessness of human life.” ―Roger Berkowitz
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“I am exactly what they want until I am not.” ―Namwali Serpell
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Totalitarian movements don’t aim to discredit particular facts; they seek to breed “extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of the man who can fabricate it.” —Hannah Arendt
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“I believe firmly that love is a transforming power that can lift a whole community to new horizons of fair play, goodwill, and justice.” ―Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Oh! Were I but her slave, following her footsteps. Ah! Then should I joy in seeing the forms of all her limbs.” ―Egyptian love poem, 1492–1488 BCE
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“The notion of ‘slow’ is entirely antithetical to modern urban life.”
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“A LONG WAY TO GO” ―Susan LaMont, 18 x 40 - oil on linen 🎨
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“In short, we’ve lost control of our relationship with technology because technology has become better at controlling us.” ―Bianca Bosker
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“All-consuming modernity is a stressor, a change that catalyzes our need to identify with something stable.”
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“First we computerized work, then we computerized home and social life, then we condensed and transferred that life to our pockets.” ―Ian Bogost 🎨
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“The next thing you know, Trump is going to call the head of some country a whore. ‘GET THAT WHORE OUT OF HERE’.” ―Alec Baldwin
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“Is [Trumpzilla] strategic, or is he sophisticated enough to know the power of the kind of linguistic hand grenade that he has become?” ―John Oliver
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November 9, 2106 ― The Election of Trump
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“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.” ―Rick Riordan
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“‘Let’s face facts: They don’t ask me to come back because my movies are such blockbusters lately’. It’s taken the role of his nightmares to make him feel the most like a star.” ―Chris Jones
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“Loving white American men is like eating melon—it is exactly what I want until I put it in my mouth and recall its insistent, aggressive blandness. Even when they are cruel, they are casual.” ―Namwali Serpell
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“No matter how often we say we’re creeped out by technology, we tend to acclimate quickly if it delivers what we want before we want it.” ―Cliff Kuang 🔫 🔫
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“The hope and promise of new computer technology have given way to the malaise of living with it.” ―Ian Bogost 🎨
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“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” ―Oscar Wilde
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“Only instead of toxins leaving my body, about a shallow lagoon of Merlot floods into it.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky
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“Of course, being newly single sort of feels like diving into a pail of garbage all the time.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky
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“With infinite choice comes infinite opportunities to judge. The more options that exist, the pickier you become.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky 🐦
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“Russian life, I soon found out, was marked less by fear than by cynicism: the all-pervasive idea that no institution is to be trusted, because no institution is bigger than the avarice of the person in charge.” ―Michael Idov
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“That was the genius of the system. It didn’t need a giant security apparatus. It needed only you, the citizen, to be implicated just enough to have something to lose but not desperate enough that you’d be tempted to lose it.” ―Michael Idov
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“[The white supremacists] also made a point to defend Donald Trump, at one point chanting ‘Russia is our friend’.” ―Adam Peck 🎨
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“The basic experience underlying totalitarianism, the experience that continues today to make it likely that totalitarianism remains a constant concern, is loneliness, an alienation from political, social, and cultural life.” ―Roger Berkowitz 🐦
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“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ―Ansel Adams
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“The corollary to white innocence is white passivity, the feeling that what one’s ancestors did was so messed up that it couldn’t possibly make a difference where one eats a barbecue sandwich.” ―Lauren Collins
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“Without any pesky human distractions, you and your new other half — also you — will continue unimpeded on the path toward world domination, provided the two of you never discover the Internet.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky
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“Above all, horror finds us wherever we are. This is one of the costs of having a network organ, and the full-spectrum awareness it underwrites: a low-grade, persistent sense of the world and its suffering that we carry around at all times.” 🎨
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“Every new relationship is a potential future ghost. It takes an almost delusional level of optimism to ignore the possibility. But we try our best.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Hallie Bateman 🎨
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“Such loyalty can be expected only from the completely isolated human being who derives his sense of having a place in the world only from his belonging to a movement.” ―Hannah Arendt
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“To offer my brownness to white men is still to grant them the only experience that they are denied by definition. To love a white man is to put yet another thing within his reach.” ―Namwali Serpell
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“It was a personal thing—for so long, this place always had control over some part of how I felt. For me, it was like, ‘It’s gonna end today’.” ―Justin Bamberg 🎨
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“In ‘Defending My Heritage’, he claims that he and his family always treated black people well, citing his father’s practice, at a restaurant he owned, of giving a black employee discarded food and old grease.” ―Lauren Collins
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“He went on to talk about the trouble with racially interbred societies, the genetic basis of criminality, and his belief that the South should secede.” ―Lauren Collins
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“Shortly after the massacre at Mother Emanuel, members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans showed up, took down [Confederate] flag, and replaced it with a new one that was three times as big.” ―Lauren Collins
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“My race and gender determine the borders I can cross, the places I can go, just as yours do for you.” ―Rebecca Solnit
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“Life is Rape. The rest is jus' details.” ―Arundhati Roy
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“But the Americans had developed something new and vile; Cairnes posited that by linking color to slavery America had infected itself with something that—regardless of who would win the coming war—would last for generations.” ―Maurice Carlos Ruffin
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“Democracy, the modern world’s holy cow, is in crisis.” ―Arundhati Roy
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“When a man cooks, it is an occasion, an event to be relished; when a woman cooks, it is relegated to care work.” ―Mayukh Sen
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“And by the way, it's no coincidence that all of these women are white—they've been given leeway to screw up and court public disapproval in ways that a woman of color would never be afforded.” ―Sady Doyle 🎨
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“[Trumpzilla] has shown a willingness to assert his personal control over reality. And he has positioned himself as a Janus-faced figure who can present one version of reality to his followers and another version to the outside world.” ―Roger Berkowitz
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“It's entirely possible to criticize a woman without being sexist; you just have to apply the same criticisms as you would to a man, with the same level of harshness.” ―Sady Doyle
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“If you want to know which segment of America is doing poorly during a given decade, look at the players on the gridiron.” ―Maurice Carlos Ruffin
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“When it comes to getting bums on seats, [a forced] hysterectomy just doesn't measure up to rape.” ―Arundhati Roy
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“The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.” ―George Vaillant
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“That sense of the pregnant body as abject goes back millennia, as the pregnant body is a woman’s body at its most fecund, but also in its most grotesque figuration: the body swells, expands, and oozes, the boundary between inside and outside permeable.”
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“We are not in a police state now, not yet. I’m talking about what may come.” ―Daniel Ellsberg 🌼 🏡 🌸
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“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” ―Pablo Picasso
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“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.” ―Hannah Arendt
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“Creativity takes courage.” ―Henri Matisse
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“It occurs to me that the person who took the time to share the idea that just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you might well have been black.” ―Camille Dungy
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“There was, however, one thing from which no creature comfort could shield you: the general breakdown of trust. Wealth may or may not trickle down, but normalized corruption certainly does.” ―Michael Idov
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