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“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest.” ―Bill Bryson 🍗
by anokarina

“As an artist right now there’s so much to work on and figure out and explain. I definitely shy away from ‘Trump is stupid’. No, he’s breaking the law. That's clear, I don't need to embellish.” ―Robin Bell 🔮 💦
by anokarina

“No, where are you really from?” ―Zara Rahman
by anokarina

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by VirtualWolf

“I want one day without a CNN alert that scares the hell out of me.” ―Marilyn Milian
by anokarina

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” ―J.M. Barrie 🍝 🍝
by anokarina

“Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence.” ―Leonardo da Vinci 🏢
by anokarina

“The all-too-often-forgotten African-American cabaret singer named “Baby” Esther truly gave birth to Betty Boop, yet rarely receives credit for it; her story, in many ways, tells a larger tale about America itself.” ―Gabrielle Bellot 💦
by anokarina

“The answer to your question is not a pretty one—which is that when someone dies, I finally know what happened to them.” ―George Vaillant 💦
by anokarina

“I don’t know what it means to live.” ―Haruki Murakami 🐈
by anokarina

“For those lucky to be employed, we’re really hyperemployed—committed to our jobs and other jobs as well. It goes without saying that we’re not being paid for all these jobs, but pay is beside the point, because the real cost of hyperemployment is time.”
by anokarina

“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.” ―Dita Von Teese 🍑 🍨
by anokarina

Hannah Conway: “Do you regret it, not having children? Oh, I'm sorry. That's too personal.” // Claire Underwood: “Do you ever regret having them?” 🍑
by anokarina

“Rise to the occassion which is life!” ―Virginia Euwer Wolff 🍕
by anokarina

“I don't judge people. / It blurs out the center of my attention, / my focus, / myself.” ―Toba Beta 🍫
by anokarina

“The amount black women earn for every white male dollar: 63 cents.” ―Rahawa Haile
by anokarina

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” ―Leonardo da Vinci 🎨
by anokarina

“Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.” ―Ani DiFranco 🐈
by anokarina

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by wanderland.xyz

“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you – that would be the real betrayal.” ―George Orwell / “1984” 💡
by anokarina

“Fate loves the fearless.” ―James Russell Lowell 💻 🐈
by anokarina

“All wo/men by nature desire knowledge.” ―Aristotle 🐐
by anokarina

“We all like chicken.” ―Malcolm X 🍗🍚🍅
by anokarina

“The hope and promise of new computer technology have given way to the malaise of living with it.” ―Ian Bogost 🎨
by anokarina

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“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.” ―John Irving 👶 🌊
by anokarina

“White readers want absolution. They also want to manage all the risk of interracial contact in a way that minority groups can never do.” ―Tressie McMillan Cottom 🎨
by anokarina

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” ―Mark Twain 🌅 ✈️
by anokarina

“...so I have refrained from informing her that the light in me is sometimes a government building on fire.” ―Laurie Penny 💡
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“‘Is there anything that isn’t touched by time?’ There are only a few people who, once this question comes to them, can rarely think about anything else.” ―Anthony Kronman 🐢
by anokarina

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ―Rabindranath Tagore 🍔
by anokarina

“I'm just a bachelor / I'm looking for a partner / Someone who knows how to ride / Without even falling off” ―Ginuwine 🎭
by anokarina

“Or, if you wanted to be cheeky about it: No gods, no masters; no bosses, no landlords. It’s an enticing idea: After all, we’ve rightfully lost faith in all of the above.” ―Molly Osberg 🎨
by anokarina

“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.” ―Terry Pratchett 🐕
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“Sometimes I will say whatever I think you want to hear, anything to make the conversation progress before we get to the awkward part where you realize that you wouldn’t be talking to me like this if I were white.” ―Zara Rahman 🍮
by anokarina

“Either you die in the world, another speck to be mourned and then forgotten, or the world dies around you.” —Sam Kriss
by anokarina

“Solitude is not only a state of mind essential to the development of an individual’s consciousness – and conscience – but also a practice that prepares one for participation in social and political life.” ―Jennifer Stitt ⛰
by anokarina

“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.” ―Isaac Bashevis Singer 🐈 🐯 🐈
by anokarina

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“Vision is a subtractive process: The human eye sees only what's left behind, unabsorbed.” ―Maria Wollan
by anokarina

“I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.” ―Joyce Rachelle 🌸
by anokarina

“Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything [Fred Astaire] did ... backwards and in high heels." ―Bob Thaves 👠
by anokarina

“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
by anokarina

“With an evermore increase of industrialization machine stops being merely a tool, develops a life of its own and imposes its rhythm onto human. Operating it he moves mechanically, becomes part of the machine.” ―Heide Schönemann 🚂
by anokarina

“The notion of ‘slow’ is entirely antithetical to modern urban life.”
by anokarina

“Every time a young person declared all politics equally dirty and all governments corrupt, corruption won. The regime could just sit back and keep winning, in a self-propelling loop of triumph ―because everyone else had lost this battle long ago.” 🎨
by anokarina

“The past faded for me in the morning light, and my memories and lost desires dissolved into a haze swallowed up in the needs of the present.” ―Cleopatra 🌅
by anokarina

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by wanderland.xyz

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by dksesh

“Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.” ―Scott Adams 🐟
by anokarina

“I know that we will live forever now / But even so / I should know you better by now / I know” ―The Prides 🎭
by anokarina

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” ―Arundhati Roy 🌴 🌊
by anokarina

“What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.” ―George Orwell
by anokarina

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” ―Søren Kierkegaard 🐈
by anokarina

“A community of chess players, Arendt writes, cannot be tolerated in a totalitarian state because the players, protected from loneliness by their bonds, do not experience the lonely person’s ‘feeling of being expendable’.” ―Roger Berkowitz 💦 ⛰
by anokarina

“Our stories are told by white actors over and over again and we feel at a loss to know how to cope with it.” ―Margaret Cho 🎨 👶
by anokarina

“You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.” ―H.L. Mencken
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“The [Idiot in Chief] cannot be trusted. [Lord Dampnut] cannot be believed. [Trumpzilla] corrupts everything he touches.” ―Richard Cohen 📚
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“You will find no shortage of pretexts. After all, you are a woman.” ―Andromache 🎨
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“The wellbeing ideology is a symptom of a broader political disease.” ―Laurie Penny 🎨
by anokarina