‘When we look at ourselves in relation to the geological, you see how enmeshed and tied up we are with the inorganic,” she explains, using the pigment granules that make her skin brown as an example, or the way stone and skeleton are comprised of the same minerals.
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cleaned up, well-produced electronic music often reproduces white privilege & the hierarchical lies of the expert-making university complex’
-Elysia Crampton
You shall not go down twice the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast theory, wherein what is most changeable is shown to be fullest of eternity, and your relationship to the river, and the river’s relationship to you and to itself, turns out to be at once more complex and more reassuring than a mere lack of identity. You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
on a passing freight car,
graffiti that said
“laugh now cry later”
makes me want to cry now
White people must carry an Indian deep inside themselves.
If the interior Indian is male
then he must be a warrior, especially if he is inside a white man.
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In the Great American Indian novel, when it is finally written,
all of the white people will be Indians and all of the Indians will be ghosts.
-Sherman Alexie
“America is not a young land. It is old and dirty and evil, before the settlers, before the Indians, the evil is there waiting.”
I feel like usually I’m just like a spigot and if I’m lucky I catch something when the faucet gets turned on and try to piece it together into something that is more whole and self-contained