June 2013
8 posts
“The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, and even then, we have the moon.”
— Warsan Shire, from “What We Have,” in Poetry Review (v. 102, no. 4, 2012)
“According to Greek Mythology, humans were originally created with four legs, four arms, and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate beings, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.” -Plato’s The Symposium
“The answers are in our words; the solutions are in our actions.”
—william chapman (via williamchapmanwritings)
May 2013
36 posts
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— Hey, hippie girl, you Mexican? On both sides?
— Front & back, I say.
— You sure don’t look Mexican.
A part of me wants to kick their ass. A part of me feels sorry for their stupid ignorant selves. But if you’ve never been farther south than Nuevo Laredo, how the hell would you know what Mexicans are supposed to look like, right?
There are the green-eyed Mexicans. The rich blond Mexicans. The Mexicans w/the faces of Arab sheiks. The Jewish Mexicans. The big-footed-as-a-German Mexicans. The leftover-French Mexicans. The chaparrito compact Mexicans. The Tarahumara tall-as-a-desert-saguaro Mexicans. The Mediterranean Mexicans. The Mexicans w/Tunisian eyebrows. The negrito Mexicans of the double coasts. The Chinese Mexicans. The curly-haired, freckled-faced, red-headed Mexicans. The Lebanese Mexicans. Look, I don’t know what you’re talking about when you say I don’t look Mexican. I am Mexican. Even though I was born on the U.S. side of the border.
” —Sandra Cisneros “Caramelo”
“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”
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“As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.”
—Steve Maraboli (via thatkindofwoman)
