Kyle Gater

Student at The Ohio State University, Commonplace Blog

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A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.

Peter Zamperini

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Hashtag Poem

Unchanged soles, forgotten

LostInAForeignLand, confusion

Sad truths, isolation

Heritage, discrimination

RacialPride, segregation

DividedSociety, BuildingAnger

BlackVsWhite, war

Antigovernment, rich vs poor, LifeAndDeath

Change.

-Kyle Gater

[kylegater]

"On the dock where you board the boat for Ship Island, someone will take your picture: the photograph--who you were--will be waiting when you return."

Theories of Space and Time -Natasha Trethewey

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"I returned to a country battlefield where colored troops fought and died-Port Hudson where their bodies swelled and blackened beneath the sun-unburied until earth's green sheet pulled over them, unmarked by any headstones."

South -Natasha Trethewey

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"Homo sapiens is the only species to suffer psychological exile"

E. O. Wilson

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America

"America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb"

-Allen Ginsberg

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South Park S17E01 Let Go Let Gov

How popular culture can make fun of the things our American government does. South Park makes fun of the NSA's ineffectiveness

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'If your enemies are hungry, feed them.' But to be perfectly clear, my enemies are not hungry.

-“Arroz Poetica”, Aracelis Girmay

#privileged #notequal #war #enemies

(via katiechillinsky)

[kylegater]

The conscious shout of all that is white is "It's Great to be white." The conscious shout of the slack in Black is "It's Great to be white." Thus all that is white has white strength and yours.

Primer For Blacks -Gwendolyn Brooks

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And they await, across the Changes and the spiraling dead, our Black revival, our Black vinegar, our hands, and our hot blood.

Young Afrikans -Gwendolyn Brooks

[kylegater]

We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

We Real Cool -Gwendolyn Brooks

[kylegater]

A policeman who shot down a ten year old in Queens stood over the boy with his cop shoes in childish blood and a voice said "Die you little motherfucker" and there are tapes to prove it.

Power -Audre Lorde

[kylegater]

Find someone like yourself. Find others. Agree you will never desert each other. Understand that any rift among you means power to those who want to do you in. Close to the center, safety; toward the edges, danger.

Yom Kippur 1984 -Adrienne Rich

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The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand.

Aunt Jennifer's Tiger -Adrienne Rich

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There are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear.

Who Said It Was Simple -Audre Lorde

[kylegater]

I do not dwell within my birth nor my divinities who am ageless and half-grown and still seeking

A Woman Speaks -Audre Lorde

[kylegater]

who cut their wrists three times successively unsuccessfully, gave up and were forced to open antique stores where they though they were growing old and cried

Howl Pt 1 - Allen Ginsberg