“Grace Lee Boggs … to participate in creating a vision of the future that will enlarge the humanity of all of us … When people come together voluntarily to create their own vision, they begin wishing it to come into being with such passion that they begin creating an active path leading to it from the present.” (RK, Freedom Dreams)
keep my heart forever filled anew
With dreams and wonders
the relative safety of brutal work […] difficult always
Only the tea roses remained sturdy with promises you could count on to be kept.
after she spoke, the smile that followed made the sun look like a fool
–TM
“This is the place. […] Don’t see; feel,” she said. “You can feel your way, but hurry, hurry.” (TM)
“Good as always,” he said over his shoulder. “Always,” I repeated
“Look past the fence—there—those purple flowers. […] These will be perfect on our windowsill.” […] It was beauty, I learned, that we risked ourselves for.
“What’s good?” […] a precious spark we sought and harvested of and for one another.
“maybe all names are illusions. How often do we name something after its briefest form?”
–Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
“a genre [a place] for ‘managing the distance and proximity of what touches us’” Joe Jukes on Berlant (‘THE PLACE WHERE…’, Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise)
“We dreamed the ancient world as a place of freedom, a picture to imagine what we desired and what was possible.”
“… looked backward to look forward, finding the cosmos by way of ancient Egypt.” (Robin D.G. Kelley)
seeing illuminates the world
“the Marvelous was free”
“The work of these movements taken as a whole interrogates what is “normal”; […] encourages us to construct a politics rooted in desire.” (Robin D.G. Kelley)
