December 2010
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Dec 29th
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie →
‘My first novel is on the West African secondary school curriculum. My second novel is taught in universities. One question I am almost always certain of getting during media interviews is a variation of this: we appreciate the work you are doing and your novels are important but when are you getting married? I refuse to accept that the institution of marriage is what gives me my true...
Dec 29th
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“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the...”
– George Orwell | 1984  (via girlinboyclothes)
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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“Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement...”
– Ivan Illich | Deschooling Society, 1970
Dec 20th
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“Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we...”
– Bertrand Russell | History of Western Philosophy 
Dec 20th
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“The economy of Senegal, which produces some of the most beautiful women and best...”
– TIME | 21 December 1959 wtf?! 
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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“You can be very wild and still be very wise”
– Yoko Ono I’d like to know how … (via oceanofmind)
Dec 19th
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WatchWatch
Projecto Trilhos | Angola  A project aiming to collect oral testimonies of those Angolan citizens and foreigners directly and indirectly involved in Angola’s anticolonial struggle.
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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“You think because he doesn’t love you that you are worthless. You think...”
– Song of Solomon [Chapter 13] | Toni Morrison the way clouds love a mountain
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“The vision of progress is the rational madness of history seen as sequential...”
– Derek Walcott | ‘The Muse of History’ Two years after taking a postcolonial theory course [with the amazing Priyamvada Gopal] in which I read this essay (repeatedly) this line pops into my head as I scrawl my paper by hand, here, on the other side of the Atlantic. BOOM. I get you -...
Dec 13th
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Dec 11th
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Wild Geese | Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.  You do not have to walk on your knees  for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.  You only have to let the soft animal of your body  love what it loves.  Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.  Meanwhile the world goes on.  Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain  are moving across the landscapes,  over the prairies and the deep...
Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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