August 2011
19 posts
“Now that he is safely dead
Let us praise him
build monuments to his glory
sing hosannas to his name.
Dead men make
such convenient heroes: They
cannot rise
to challenge the images
we would fashion from their lives.
And besides,
it is easier to build monuments
than to make a better world.” — excerpt from poet Carl Wendell Hines’ poem, ‘Now That He Is Safely Dead’ about Martin Luther King, Jr. (via reinventionoftheprintingpress)
Let us praise him
build monuments to his glory
sing hosannas to his name.
Dead men make
such convenient heroes: They
cannot rise
to challenge the images
we would fashion from their lives.
And besides,
it is easier to build monuments
than to make a better world.” — excerpt from poet Carl Wendell Hines’ poem, ‘Now That He Is Safely Dead’ about Martin Luther King, Jr. (via reinventionoftheprintingpress)
“You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. And growing up, I felt like a monster in some ways. I didn’t see myself reflected at all. I was like, “Yo, is something wrong with me? That the whole society seems to think that people like me don’t exist? And part of what inspired me, was this deep desire that before I died, I would make a couple of mirrors. That I would make some mirrors so that kids like me might seem themselves reflected back and might not feel so monstrous for it.”
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- Junot Diaz (via Tatiana Richards)
One of my face quotes
girls on girls (captain cuts remix)
beyonce + beastie boys
If Beyonce came out with this version of “Girls” I would’ve instantly loved it. Amazing version.
This needs to be done on Glee!
“Let’s not let anyone tell us that the Internet is going to murder the book, because the automobile has yet to murder the bicycle. The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect invention, and perfection dies hard.”
—Let’s not let anyone tell us that the Internet is… | t h e i n v e n t h e r (via milesfromtrane)
