fetters & solace 2.0

November 2010

11 posts

“To all our brothers and sisters in school - if your school is messed up, if the administration and the teachers don’t care and don’t teach - don’t let them force you to drop out. Throw them out. The schools belong to us, not to them. Take all that anger and put it to work for our people. Make revolution inside the schools. If the schools don’t function for us, they shouldn’t function at all!” —Richie Perez
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YOUNG LORDS PARTY
Oct 1970 (via syeda)

Nov 30, 20103 notes

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Nov 30, 2010

Nov 27, 2010711 notes

“Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep again. Five or six in the morning, there’s hope, for dawn’s just under the horizon. But three, now, Christ, three A.M.! Doctors say the body’s at low tide then. The soul is out. The blood moves slow. You’re the nearest to dead you’ll ever be save dying. Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes open. God, if you had strength to rouse up, you’d slaughter your half-dreams with buckshot! But no, you lie pinned to a deep well-bottom that’s burned dry. The moon rolls by to look at you down there, with its idiot face. It’s a long way back to sunset, a far way on to dawn, so you summon all the fool things of your life, the stupid lovely things done with people known so very well who are now so very dead- And wasn’t it true, had he read it somewhere, more people in hospitals die at 3 A.M. than at any other time…?” —Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (via bohemea)

Nov 24, 2010165 notes

Nov 24, 2010

“Try being cautious about exposing yourself to influences that might encourage you to be something you’re not.” —Rob Brezsny

Nov 21, 2010

“… to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested.” —

Nov 20, 2010

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” —

Oscar Wilde, ‘The Critic as Artist’ (1890)

Artemis: Oscar :)

Nov 18, 2010181 notes

“All my life I’ve been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.” —Luis Bunuel, “In Curiosity”

Nov 17, 20102 notes

“Of course you are perfect - from the beginning. But it is not necessary for you to say that you are perfect. You are perfect even though you don’t realize you are perfect.” —Shunryu Suzuki (via oceanofmind)

Nov 10, 2010

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